describe the poem "A Legend of the Northland".
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The poem is a legend about an old lady who angered Saint Peter because of her greed. The story goes' on like this. In Northland lived a lady who was very selfish and greedy. ... He asked the lady to give him a piece of cake.
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It is a good poem of Saint Peter. It is written by Phoebe Cary. This poem is a ballad.
In this poem, the poet tells a ballad about the lady and the Saint. Saint Peter was hungry because of his journey worldwide. In Northland the saint came to the door of a cottage, there was a little woman baking cakes on a hearth.
As saint was hungry and faint he asked the lady to give him a single cake out of her store of cakes. she baked a very little cake and when baking was completed it seemed too big to giveaway. then she kneaded another but when baking lay it seem too big to give away. she took a tiny scrap of dough and rolled it flat and baked it as thin as a wafer but she couldn't part with that she said to herself that my cake seem too small when I eat it myself and too large to give away. she didn't give any cake to Saint Peter, he was angry on her he said that you are part of selfish to Dwell in human form to have both food and shelter and fire to keep you warm now she shall build as birds do and get her scanty little food. she should go in the hard dry wood in the jungles to bore and bore for food.Saint Peter Pan the little selfish lady into a Woodpecker .she flew through the chimney never speaking a word for she was changed to a bird . everything was burned but her little Scarlet cap was not burned. now every country school boy sees her in the word vatiali increase till this very day boring and boring for food.
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