



Three Poems about St. Francis On his Feast Day





ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Vachel Lindsay

(1879-1931)

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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.





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