<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506784" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hallelujah: A Sestina</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A wind's word, the Hebrew Hallelujah.<br>I wonder they never gave it to a boy<br>(Hal for short) boy with wind-wild hair.<br>It means Praise God, as well it should since praise<br>Is what God's for. Why didn't they call my father<br>Hallelujah instead of Ebenezer? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eben, of course, but christened Ebenezer,<br>Product of Nova Scotia (hallelujah).<br>Daniel, a country doctor, was his father<br>And my father his tenth and final boy.<br>A baby and last, he had a baby's praise:<br>Red petticoats, red cheeks, and crow-black hair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A boy has little to say about his hair<br>And little about a name like Ebenezer<br>Except that you can shorten either. Praise<br>God for that, for that shout Hallelujah.<br>Shout Hallelujah for everything a boy<br>Can be that is not his father or grandfather. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But then, before you know it, he is a father<br>Too and passing on his brand of hair<br>To one more perfectly defenseless boy,<br>Dubbing him John or James or Ebenezer<br>But never, so far as I know, Hallelujah,<br>As if God didn't need quite that much praise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But what I'm coming to - Could I ever praise<br>My father half enough for being a father<br>Who let me be myself? Sing Hallelujah.<br>Preacher he was with a prophet's head of hair<br>And what but a prophet's name was Ebenezer,<br>However little I guessed it as a boy? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Outlandish names of course are never a boy's<br>Choice. And it takes some time to learn to praise.<br>Stone of Help is the meaning of Ebenezer.<br>Stone of Help - what fitter name for my father?<br>Always the Stone of Help however his hair<br>Might graduate from black to Hallelujah. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such is the old drama of boy and father.<br>Praise from a grayhead now with thinning hair.<br>Sing Ebenezer, Robert, sing Hallelujah!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Francis">Robert Francis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506784" data-title="Hallelujah: A Sestina de Robert Francis" data-description="A wind's word, the Hebrew Hallelujah. I wonder they never gave it to a boy (Hal for short) boy with wind-wild hair. It means Praise God, as well it should since praise Is what God's for. Why didn't they call my father Hallelujah instead of Ebeneze..."></div> </div> </div>

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