Courage

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Title:     Courage
Author: Herbert Edward Palmer [More Titles by Palmer]

I

I'd once a friend--what joy to say!--
Who when he took a holiday
Would climb the towering Dolomites
And strive with Fear upon the heights;
Tied to a rope, down dangling sheer,
He'd talk to God through clouds of Fear.

O give me friends like that, I say,
And such a gallant holiday.

II

I'd another friend, in another pale,
Who spent a holiday in jail.
He fought for what his heart deemed right,
And they shut him up in walls of night.
Yet merrily his heart did sing
Like a mating bird that hails the Spring.

[The end]
Herbert Edward Palmer's poem: Courage

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