Prepare scrolls of things such as bull strength, cats grace, identify, legend lore and such. Saves your spell slots for all those cures. I am sure most of you know that a bard cannot take this feat. Just trying to keep you on your toes. Another no brainer.
Most bards have higher dex scores than strength scores.
This will help out those earlier level bards who have to wade into melee a bit more often. Not bad at higher levels either. For those bards who go the more martial route. But then again, we get inspire courage at lvl 1. Your call on this one.