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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427730" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>St. Alexis, Patron of Beggars</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We who beg for bread as we daily tread<br> Country lane and city street,<br>Let us kneel and pray on the broad highway<br> To the saint with the vagrant feet.<br>Our altar light is a buttercup bright,<br> And our shrine is a bank of sod,<br>But still we share St. Alexis' care,<br> The Vagabond of God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They gave him a home in purple Rome<br> And a princess for his bride,<br>But he rowed away on his wedding day<br> Down the Tiber's rushing tide.<br>And he came to land on the Asian strand<br> Where the heathen people dwell;<br>As a beggar he strayed and he preached and prayed<br> And he saved their souls from hell. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bowed with years and pain he came back again<br> To his father's dwelling place.<br>There was none to see who this tramp might be,<br> For they knew not his bearded face.<br>But his father said, &quot;Give him drink and bread<br> And a couch underneath the stair.&quot;<br>So Alexis crept to his hole and slept.<br> But he might not linger there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For when night came down on the seven-hilled town,<br> And the emperor hurried in,<br>Saying, &quot;Lo, I hear that a saint is near<br> Who will cleanse us of our sin,&quot;<br>Then they looked in vain where the saint had lain,<br> For his soul had fled afar,<br>From his fleshly home he had gone to roam<br> Where the gold-paved highways are. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We who beg for bread as we daily tread<br> Country lane and city street,<br>Let us kneel and pray on the broad highway<br> To the saint with the vagrant feet.<br>Our altar light is a buttercup bright,<br> And our shrine is a bank of sod,<br>But still we share St. Alexis' care,<br> The Vagabond of God!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Joyce+Kilmer">Joyce Kilmer</a><div class=q>
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