Lines for Francis | Poems from Under the Sun

Selections taken from "Poems Under the Sun," A collection of original poems

Lines for Francis

Dominus regit me, nihil mihi deerit

- Psalm 23

I shall not want.

Though I be threadbare and

Penniless, or suffer

The slings and arrows of

Enemies merciless;

Or whether shackled in

Chains of despair, and cast

In dungeons of distress,

Disparaged, to the world

A shame; and among the

Birds my name to them a

Curse in their winged flight

Or in their feathered nests,

And though I weary of

Many trials and many tests,

I shall not want.