Looking for an old poem from an old Catholic reader from the 1940's It is NAILS about St. Joseph an Jesus.

Question

Poem: NAILS: "Whenever the bright blue nails would drop down on the floor of the carpenter shop, St. Joseph, prince of carpenter men, would stoop to gather them up again. For he feared for two little feet, that the bright blue nails their soles would pierce--I don't remember the rest, it ends with Jesus having His feet nailed to the cross . Any answer would be appreciated! This is from an old Catholic reader that I had in the early 1940's, in St. Louis, Mo.

Answer 1

I would love to read this poem it sounds beautiful if you find it can you please share it with me as well?
Thanks,
Regina

Answer 2

Nevermind that this question was asked yesterday.... Protestants don't pray to Mary or St. Joseph. Big difference. We don't believe that dead people can hear prayers (except for Jesus). Jesus did not teach us to pray to Mary or the saints. We have the statues in our nativity scenes, well, because Mary and St. Joseph were there. We don't make idols out of them like Catholics do, however.

Answer 3

NAILS

By Father Leonard Feeney

Whenever the bright blue nails would drop
Down on the floor of his carpenter shop,
Saint Joseph, prince of carpenter men,
Would stoop to gather them up again;
For he feared for two little sandals sweet,
And very easy to pierce they were
As they pattered over the lumber there
And rode on two little sacred feet.

But alas, on a hill between Earth and Heaven
One day - two nails in a cross were driven,
And fastened it firm to the sacred feet
Where once rode two little sandals sweet;
And Christ and His mother looked off in death
Afar - to the valley of Nazareth,
Where the carpenter’s shop was spread with dust
And the little blue nails, all packed in rust,
Slept in a box on the window-sill;
And Joseph lay sleeping under the hill.

http://www.romancatholicism.org/in-towns-and-little-towns.htm

With love in Christ.