#You would've gotten 'Waking Beauty' as the recommendation if I hadn't previously recommended it to you... :P

[valiantarcher]

For the poem asks: Christ walks the earth again/His lute upon His back./His red robe rent to tatters/His riches gone to wrack

Thank you for sending this in and for your patience in waiting; my apologies for the delay in responding! Like with the previous one, I had an immediate impression of the sort of story that would fit these lines but, unfortunately, I haven't read it. So, instead you get The Man Who was Magic by Paul Gallico. This is a book that has been on our shelves longer than I can remember, for it was my father's when he was younger, and the cover looks like this:

For years I have assumed it was a fable about the Biblical Adam and on the strength of that and the idea of roaming (with "riches gone to wrack"), all I had to do was read it to confirm the recommendation. So, I read it - and it's not about the Biblical Adam, nor is it an explicitly Christian story (and probably not implicitly either). But, if you make it past the "if you believe it, you can do it" surface-level moral, there are some wonderful pictures/elements that are so close and point towards something True - and on that strength, the recommendation stands.