WHEN to God's Fondouk the donkeys are taken -- Donkeys of Barbary, Sicily, Spain -- If peradventure the Deity waken He shall not easily slumber again. Where in the sweet of the straw they have laid them, Broken and dead of their burdens and sores, He, for a change, shall remember He made them (One of the best of His numerous chores), Order from someone a sigh of repentance -- Donkeys of Syria, Araby, Greece -- Over the Fondouk distemper the sentence: "For God's own forsaken -- the Stable of Peace!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FREDERICK DOUGLASS by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR SONNET TO HOPE by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS THE BROOK: WINTER by LAURA ABELL TO ONE WHO ASKS by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 1 by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) SLOW TO COME, QUICK A-GONE by WILLIAM BARNES APRIL BYEWAY by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |