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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MODERN SAINT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography
First Line: No monkish garb he wears, no beads he tells
Last Line: And ministers to men with all his might.
Subject(s): Earth; Eyes; Faces; Hearts; Saints; World
First Line: No monkish garb he wears, no beads he tells
Last Line: And ministers to men with all his might.
Subject(s): Earth; Eyes; Faces; Hearts; Saints; World
NO monkish garb he wears, no beads he tells,
Nor is immured in walls remote from strife.
But from his heart deep mercy ever wells;
He looks humanely forth on human life.
Not hedged about by sacerdotal rule,
He walks a fellow of the scarred and weak.
Liberal and wise his gifts; he goes to school
To Justice; and he turns the other cheek.
He looks not holy; simple is his belief;
His creed for mystic visions do not scan;
His face shows lines cut there by others' grief,
And in his eyes is love of brother-man.
No medieval mystery, no crowned,
Dim figure, halo-ringed, uncanny bright.
A modern saint: a man who treads earth's ground,
And ministers to men with all his might.
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