The Saint And The Hunchback

 Hunchback.
 Stand up and lift your hand and bless
A man that finds great bitterness
In thinking of his lost renown.

A Roman Caesar is held down
Under this hump.


Saint.
 God tries each man
According to a different plan.

I shall not cease to bless because
I lay about me with the taws
That night and morning I may thrash
Greek Alexander from my flesh,
Augustus Caesar, and after these
That great rogue Alcibiades.


Hunchback.
 To all that in your flesh have stood
And blessed, I give my gratitude,
Honoured by all in their degrees,
But most to Alcibiades.

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