Thursday, May 30, 2024

For Joan on her feast day

This lesson from the Maid I’ve learned:
Align with God whate’er the cost.
You may be killed, you may be burned.
You’ll still have won, they’ll still have lost.
Be good and true, do what it takes,
Clear-eyed — however high the stakes.

2 comments:

NLR said...

Good poem

NLR said...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Joan_of_Arc

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