Today is the feast of St. Jehanne d'Arc, usually known in English as Joan of Arc.
Jehanne D'Arc
A quiet garden path
(St. Michael be our guide)
with scent of spring and day,
a field both green and wide,
and a girl--
and beauty bright and bold
(St. Catherine, for us pray)
and fierce but calm resolve
(with militance like May)
of a girl--
the hope that step by step
(St. Margaret, lend your aid)
will charge the raging host
and face the swinging blade
as a girl--
by one bright thread are bound
(Lord Jesus, give us grace)
with frame of twining flame
and eyes set in the face
of a girl....
