Excellency of Christ by Giles Fletcher

April is National Poetry Month.

He is a path, if any be misled;
He is a robe, if any naked be;
If any chance to hunger, he is bread;
If any be a bondman, he is free;
If any be but weak, how strong is he!
To dead men, life is he; to sick men, health;
To blind men, sight; and to the needy, wealth;
A pleasure without loss, a treasure without stealth.

Giles Fletcher the Younger was an Anglican cleric who lived during Elizabethan times and wrote poetry. His most famous work was a very long poem in four cantos called Christ's Victorie and Triumph, in Heaven, in Earth, over and after Death. 

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