Bishop Prosper

BISHOP PROSPER

There once lived a Bishop Prosper
Leader of poor paupers by his counsel
Wise and eloquent in his teachings
The fraudulent rich finds pardon
If they could be cheerful givers

God loves a cheerful giver
Even when all you have is meager
One makes a path for plenty
when his pocket he gives till empty

Never you free your soul to ponder
On issues which make to wonder
Nor question the saying of Prosper
Lest questions fill your life of wonder

He taught the way of greatness
And schooled them the way of fatness
Nobility dwells in obedience
The humble gives no little audience

Direct not your givings to the beggars
Nor to them that have no wisdom
Wisdom is profitable to direct
God sends Holy Bishop to take precious offerings

By and by his barn swells loftily
Beams with beans and rise with rice
And his paupers faith what he taught
To ask is to be given

In multitude both great and small
Unstopped by no ponder
To quiet the screams of their belly
With bread, beans and berry

The Lord forgives you for your laziness
And forgives you for your faithlessness
Oh, that you had been wholehearted
To till your ground unending

But of his much he gave nothing
while the weak lay dying
God loves a cheerful giver
And not a lowly beggar.