Good St. Bernard, you love
Our Lord and Our Lady so much:
You were a sincere confessor,
But in the confessional,
You were too severe,
Far far too severe,
And so the Spirit taught you
Gentleness, sweet gentleness;
Maybe it was from you that
St. Francis de Sales learned,
For he so famously said that
We will catch more flies
With a spoonful of honey
Than with a barrelful of vinegar.