THE
PSONGS
OF
NICHOLAS THE SENIOR
Nicholas pleads for a break
Psong 34
aI slept in the doorway of a church last night; the bsexton shooed me away.
2I crept away on frozen feet, and there was another who came with me.
3The cman who came away from the church with me is sick, and he has no shoes at all.
4dHe is delirious with fever, and he does not know where he is.
5He moans and cries out in terror; he dreams that he is back in the etrenches, awaiting the morning death.
6He calls out for his wife, but she does not hear. How did he come to be so cast down and alone?
7He needs to eat something hot. He needs a blanket.
8fI returned to the church to explain his need, but the doors were locked and bolted.
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