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At 14:59 2001/01/27 +0100, bernard.shaw wrote: >Samson and Delilah > >Samson was a man of very great strength, >To prove it he would go to any length. >As a young man a Lion he killed, >Just brute strength he was not very skilled. >His God gave him this wonderful power, >To save the country of Israel, at the right hour. >All went well until Delilah he met, >But the time was not right, at least not yet. >A Philistine woman, beautiful and bold, >She a conniving person with a heart so cold. >Delilah gave Samson a favour or two, >She was just deceitful and not at all true. >God had told Samson not to cut his hair, >By obeying God he had the strength of a Bear. >Samson's secret that only he knew, >Delilah got out of him in a week or two. >When his defences were down his head she did shave, >With his strength now gone the philistines made him a slave. >His enemies the philistines burned out his eyes, >For Samson no more looks to the skies >With Gods help and by biding his time, >His hair grew again for hers was a terrible crime. >Leading him to the pillars that held the temple walls, >Samson pulled those pillars and the mighty temple falls. >For his strength was unbending and he had broken Delilah's spell, >As for the Philistines they are all to be found in hell. > > >© Bernard Shaw > >[log in to unmask] > >http://members.chello.at/bernard.shaw/poetry.html > >http://www.postpoems.com/members/bern/ > what a sad tale! jmp janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype parkie 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd TEL: 613 256 8340 SMAIL: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada EMAIL: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/