Francis Joseph Thompson:
(16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907).
English poet and Catholic mystic.
At the behest of his father, a doctor, he entered medical school at the age of 18, but at 26 left home to pursue his talent as a writer and poet.
He spent three years on the streets of London, supporting himself with menial labour, becoming addicted to opium which he took to relieve a nervous problem.
It is the month, the jolly month. It is the jolly month of May.
