by Daryn Davies

Created on: March 18, 2010

JOHN THE GROCER

John the grocer is a man of modest means

His shop is such a wondrous sight

All decked with rich, sumptuous greens

Plump and succulent, an eye's delight.

The basket of apples fell in sunny Kent

Collected feverishly by a happy brigade

All eager to reap the fruit which heaven sent

To a dewy- morned picturesque glade.

Sumptuous strawberries waiting to be sold

Ripened by the long, sultry summer days

Are prized like a fragment of glistening gold

By the poor who survey with a longing gaze.

John was once poor and in desperate need

Of help which seldom came in his direction

Now he takes great pride in his daily deed

Of giving which affords closer inspection.

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