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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Narrative and legendary poems (search)
John the Baptist crying, Repent! No perfect whole can our nature make; Here or there the circle will break; The orb of life as it takes the light On one side leaves the other in night. Never was saint so good and great As to give no chance at St. Peter's gate For the plea of the Devil's advocate. So, incomplete by his being's law, The marvellous preacher had his flaw; With step unequal, and lame with faults, His shade on the path of History halts. Wisely and well said the Eastern bard: Fear . And the monk answered, “All I have In this poor cell of mine I give, The silver cup my mother gave; In Christ's name take thou it, and live.” Years passed; and, called at last to bear The pastoral crook and keys of Rome, The poor monk, in Saint Peter's chair, Sat the crowned lord of Christendom. ‘Prepare a feast,’ Saint Gregory cried, ‘And let twelve beggars sit thereat.’ The beggars came, and one beside, An unknown stranger, with them sat. ‘I asked thee not,’ the Pontiff spak