Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ST. AUGUSTINE, by HILDEGARDE FLANNER


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ST. AUGUSTINE, by                    
First Line: I would not remember now, saviour
Last Line: Beneath a silver tree!
Subject(s): Augustine, Saint (354-430); Saints; Augustine Of Hippo


I would not remember now, Saviour
How I sinned,
I would not remember now, Saviour,
But how my yellow ankles sang
Running in the wind;

How my laughter, like a flag,
Floated out and hung
In the orchard where I ran --
(Shepherd, I was young).

Fair the pears we stole, Lord.
I have set it all
In a book confessing
Sin and sinner's fall.

Now I am an old man,
Waiting, Lord, until
I shall see my last star
Beckon and grow still.

And I would remember,
Not the days I erred,
Not the nights I wandered from
The shining of your word,

But I would remember
What it was to be
A boy alive in Africa,
Beneath a silver tree!





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