My Prayer-Poem for the 29th Day of Lent, St Patrick’s Day Wednesday 17 March 2021

A SONG OF ST PATRICK, BISHOP OF IRELAND


I can hear the joyful singing of a thousand voices sweet
making music on this Island in the town and city street;
I can see a thousand people running joyfully to greet
Christ Jesus when he comes.


From my painful bed of bondage I can see them overhead,
while I suffer on this Island and my blood is running red.
I can see a nation rising for the honour of the dead
and Jesus when he comes.


I can see a crowd of children on this ancient Irish hill;
I can hear the hymns they’re singing ‘midst the sedge and daffodil
And they pray that precious souls will rise, the gospel to fulfil
of Jesus when he comes.


I’ll return, if God decrees it, with a missionary song
and when anger breeds destruction I will work to end the wrong.
And this nation, by the grace of God, will rise with faith and strong
in Jesus when he comes.


©️Mark Andrew Smith
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