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"I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years." Those words begin Francis Thompson's poem, "The Hound of Heaven." Thompson sketches the drama of God pursuing a soul. In that poem Francis Thompson may have been telling his own story. Born in 1859, at Lancashire in northern England, he intended to be a priest, but his physician-father urged him to study medicine. Unable to pass his exams, he went to London, in 1885, where he lived as a tramp and a drug addict. He earned a little money fetching cabs and selling matches.