A Meditation Upon the Cross of Saint George - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

A Meditation Upon the Cross of Saint George

 

 

                                         But on his brest a bloudie Crosse he bore,

                                         The dear remembrance of his dying Lord

 

-The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I

 

 

A cross of red upon a banner white -

The Saviour’s blood that washes clean our souls

And leaves a stainless field of eternal peace

Where all may dwell in peace in God’s good time

 

No demon or dragon can alienate  

This sacramental flag from the unity of man

No diminuitives or false forbiddings

Can deny to any its unfailing glory

 

And thus

 

Let every man be God’s true Red Crosse Knight

Protective, brave, and humble under one true Light

Because the Dragon Never Forgets (a Russia series, 53) - poem

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com

Because the Dragon Never Forgets

St. George, who fights our daily dragons for us
With golden prayers, and silver sword aloft-
Shall we neglect him on his festal day
Dismissing him as a Perseus myth?

Oh, no – for any man is more a myth
Than any saint, whose glory is in God
And not in his calendar reputation
Or in the vaporous memories of men

Even unremembered, he is our shield -
St. George, who fights our daily dragons with us

Because the Dragon Never Forgets - poem

Lawrence Hall
Mhall46184@aol.com

Because the Dragon Never Forgets

St. George, who fights our daily dragons for us
With golden prayers, and silver sword aloft -
Shall we neglect him on his festal day
Dismissing him as a Perseus myth?

Oh, no – for any man is more a myth
Than any saint, whose glory is in God
And not in his calendar reputation
Or in the vaporous memories of men

Even unremembered, he is our shield -
St. George, who fights our daily dragons for us