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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GOOD SAMARITAN, by ORVILLE LAWRENCE KUHN
First Line: Though priests and levites riding by
Last Line: The good samaritan!
Subject(s): Good Samaritan
First Line: Though priests and levites riding by
Last Line: The good samaritan!
Subject(s): Good Samaritan
Though priests and Levites riding by
turn not the helping hand,
they pity much, are sorrowful,
and think they understand
the needs of human kind.
They say long prayers for those in need,
they preach of human wrongs,
they walk with dignity and pride
among the milling throngs
but stop no wounds to bind.
Then comes the Good Samaritan,
and moved by human need
he pities much, but he helps more,
and acts upon the creed
that priests and Levites hold.
O God, I would that I might be
the Good Samaritan!
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