Summary of the poem a legend of the northland by phoebe cary
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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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The poem is a legend about an old lady who angered Saint Peter because of her greed. The story goes’ on like this. One day, Saint Peter was preaching around the world and reached the door of a cottage where this woman lived. She was making cakes and baking them on a hearth. St. Peter was fainting with hunger. He asked the lady to give him a piece of cake. The cake that she was baking then appeared to be too big, so she did not give him that and instead, she baked another smaller one. That also appeared to be big so she did not give him that also. The second time she baked yet another smaller cake but found it too big to give away. In the third attempt, she took an extremely little scrap of dough and rolled it flat. She had it as thin as a wafer but was unable to part with that also. This angered St. Peter a lot. He said that she was not fit to live in human form and enjoy food and warmth. He cursed her and transformed her into a woodpecker bird who had to bore in hard, dry wood to get its scanty food. She can be seen in the trees all day boring and boring for food.