Title: The Hero, The Knight And The Good ...

Title: The Hero, the Knight and the Good Samaritan: There’s one Big Difference

Henry Lawsons’ poem The Good Samaritan:

‘Once on a time there lived a man,’

But he has lived alway,

And that gaunt, good Samaritan

Is with us here to-day;

He passes through the city streets

Unnoticed and unknown,

He helps the sinner that he meets—

His sorrows are his own.

He shares his tucker on the track

When things are at their worst

(And often shouts in bars outback

For souls that are athirst).

To-day I see him staggering down

The blazing water-course,

And making for the distant town

With a sick man on his horse.

He’ll live while nations find their graves

And mortals suffer pain—

When colour rules and whites are slaves

And savages again.

And, after all is past and done,

He’ll rise up, the Last Man,

From tending to the last but one—

The good Samaritan.

From Phillip Gill’s Sermon: The Hero, the Knight and the Good Samaritan: There’s One Big Difference