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Summer 1991 • Vol. XIII No. 3 • Poetry |

Stanzas from the Life of George Fox, 1651-57

                  for Roberta Capers

I came once to Lichfield.
 Rumor preceded me,
  The priests who said
  I had been taken up above the cloud,
Returned to earth gently,
My pockets filled with silver and with gold.

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