St. Alexis - Patron Of Beggars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHCHIJKJ LMNMAFOF PQRQSTGT ABCBDEFE| We who beg for bread as we daily tread | A |
| Country lane and city street | B |
| Let us kneel and pray on the broad highway | C |
| To the saint with the vagrant feet | B |
| Our altar light is a buttercup bright | D |
| And our shrine is a bank of sod | E |
| But still we share St Alexis' care | F |
| The Vagabond of God | E |
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| They gave him a home in purple Rome | G |
| And a princess for his bride | H |
| But he rowed away on his wedding day | C |
| Down the Tiber's rushing tide | H |
| And he came to land on the Asian strand | I |
| Where the heathen people dwell | J |
| As a beggar he strayed and he preached and prayed | K |
| And he saved their souls from hell | J |
| - | |
| Bowed with years and pain he came back again | L |
| To his father's dwelling place | M |
| There was none to see who this tramp might be | N |
| For they knew not his bearded face | M |
| But his father said Give him drink and bread | A |
| And a couch underneath the stair | F |
| So Alexis crept to his hole and slept | O |
| But he might not linger there | F |
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| For when night came down on the seven hilled town | P |
| And the emperor hurried in | Q |
| Saying Lo I hear that a saint is near | R |
| Who will cleanse us of our sin | Q |
| Then they looked in vain where the saint had lain | S |
| For his soul had fled afar | T |
| From his fleshly home he had gone to roam | G |
| Where the gold paved highways are | T |
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| We who beg for bread as we daily tread | A |
| Country lane and city street | B |
| Let us kneel and pray on the broad highway | C |
| To the saint with the vagrant feet | B |
| Our altar light is a buttercup bright | D |
| And our shrine is a bank of sod | E |
| But still we share St Alexis' care | F |
| The Vagabond of God | E |
Alfred Joyce Kilmer (joyce)
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