Faith

By THLaird Colyne Stewart, February AS 50 (2015)

The squire asked his knight one day

Upon the virtues true to say

On which of them would lead his way:

The knight, he answered “Faith.”

The squire frowned in dark dismay

Belief in God was not his way

Another choice he tried to sway;

The knight, he answered “Faith.”

“My squire tight attention pay

When e’er you enter into fray

Believe your sword can take the day,

For that I answered Faith.

If dark your demons you would slay,

And if your dues to me you’d pay,

Believe in you is what I say,

For that I answered Faith.”

The squire could not say him nay

And with his blood he went to pay

Belief in self he learned to say

“My knight, he answered Faith.”