Felix Randal the farrier, O is he dead then? my duty all ended, Who have watched his mould of man, big-boned and hardy handsome Pining, pining, till time when reason rambled in it and some Fatal four disorders, fleshed there, all contended? Sickness broke him. Impatient, he cursed at first, but mended Being annointed and all; though a heavenlier heart began some Months earlier, since I had our sweet reprieve and ransom Tendered to him. Ah well, God rest him all road ever he offended! This seeing the sick endears them to us, us too it endears. My tongue had taught thee comfort, touch had quenched thy tears, Thy tears that touched my heart, child, Felix, poor Felix Randal; How far from then forethought of, all thy more boisterous years, When thou at the random grim forge, powerful amidst peers, Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOMESDAY BOOK: CONSIDER FREELAND by EDGAR LEE MASTERS IN A GONDOLA by ROBERT BROWNING HAIL COLUMBIA by JOSEPH HOPKINSON TO A BLOCKHEAD by ALEXANDER POPE CHRISTMAS EPITHALAMIUM by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. THE IVORY GATE; LOVE-IN-IDLENESS by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |