The Wayfarer's Journey Poem by Solomon Crane

Once long ago
Was a man with quite the ego
One night an angel appeared
And said, 'Because of your sin
At One take the journey you once feared.'
To this he reacted with shock
With apprehension he stared at the clock

Whe one came
He left for the journey
Never again to be the same
He to his instructed path
His first task
Was to destroy his golden flask
The second was a trial
That caused great rile
He was to sell his spouse
And leave his spouse
With his heavy heart
His final task was to start
Trade all his possesions
And glory on Earth
With nothing to lose
He finished his trials

Humbled and grief-stricken
The man laid down
Then the angel said,
'You have done what
Few would, and now
Are blessed.'
The man woke up
To new glory and more happiness
Then ever before