Religion

St. Francis of Assisi

by Vachel Lindsay 1879–1931

From General William Booth Enters into Heaven, and Other Poems (1913)

Religion

Would I might wake St. Francis in you all,
Brother of birds and trees, God's Troubadour,
Blinded with weeping for the sad and poor;
Our wealth undone, all strict Franciscan men,
Come, let us chant the canticle again
Of mother earth and the enduring sun.
God make each soul the lonely leper's slave;
God make us saints, and brave.

MLA

Lindsay, Vachel. “St. Francis of Assisi.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/23/.

Chicago

Lindsay, Vachel. “St. Francis of Assisi.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/23/.

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