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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: May Carols - -Author: Aubrey De Vere - -Release Date: October 16, 2012 [EBook #41077] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MAY CAROLS *** - - - - -Produced by Don Kostuch - - - - - -[Transcriber's Notes:] - This text is derived from - http://archive.org/details/maycarolspoems00veregoog - - Page numbers in this book are indicated by numbers enclosed in curly - braces, e.g. {99}. They have been located where page breaks occurred - in the original book. - - Dedicated to Fr. Richard Trout who brings his love of Christ and - the Virgin Mary to life in his preaching at Corpus Christi Parish. - "Thanks for the homilies." - -[End Transcriber's Notes:] - - -_By the same Author._ - - - -I. -THE SEARCH AFTER PEOSEEPINE, and -Other Poems. 12mo 7s. 6d. -J. H. and J. Parker, Oxford and London. - - - -II. - -POEMS (MISCELLANEOUS AND SACRED). -Fcap. 8vo 4s. 6d. -Burns and Lambert, London. - - - - -MAY CAROLS. - - -London: - -Printed by Spottiswoode & Co -New-street Square. - - - -MAY CAROLS. - - -BY - - -AUBREY DE VERE. - - -LONDON: - -LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS. - -1857. - - - -_The right of translation is reserved._ - - - -TO - -THE VERY REVEREND - -HENRY EDWARD MANNING - - -THESE POEMS - -ARE AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED - - -{v} - -INTRODUCTION. - - - -The wisdom of the Church, which consecrates the -fleeting seasons of Time to the interests of Eternity, -has dedicated the month of May (the birthday -festival, as it were, of Creation) to her who was -ever destined in the Divine Counsels to become the -Mother of her Creator. It belongs to her, of course, -as she is the representative of the Incarnation, and -its practical exponent to a world but too apt to -forget what it professes to hold. The following -Poems, written in her honour, are an attempt to -set forth, though but in mere outline, each of -them some one of the great Ideas or essential -Principles embodied in that all-embracing Mystery. -On a topic so comprehensive, converse statements, -at one time illustrating the highest excellence compatible -with mere creaturely existence, at another, -the infinite distance between the chief of creatures -and the Creator, may seem, at first sight, and -to some eyes, contradictory, although in reality, -mutually correlative. On an attentive perusal, -however, that harmony which exists among the -{vi} -many portions of a single mastering Truth, can -hardly fail to appear--and with it the scope and -aim of this Poem. - -With the meditative, descriptive pieces have -been interspersed. They are an attempt towards -a Christian rendering of external nature. Nature, -like Art, needs to be spiritualised, unless it is to -remain a fortress in the hands of an adverse Power. -The visible world is a passive thing, which ever -takes its meaning from something above itself. -In Pagan times, it drew its interpretation from -Pantheism; and to Pantheism--nay, to that Idolatry -which is the popular application of -Pantheism--it has still a secret, though restrained -tendency, not betrayed by literature alone. A -World without Divinity, Matter without Soul, is -intolerable to the human mind. Yet, on the other -hand, there is much in fallen human nature which -shrinks from the sublime thought of a Creator, -and rests on that of a sheathed Divinity diffused -throughout the universe, its life, not its maker. -Mere personified elements, the Wood-God and -River-Nymph, captivate the fancy and do not -over-awe the soul. For a bias so seductive, no -cure is to be found save in authentic Christianity, -the only practical Theism. The whole truth, on -the long run, holds its own better than the half -truth; and minds repelled by the thought of a -God who stands afar off, and created the universe -but to abandon it to general laws, fling themselves -at the feet of a God made Man. In other words, -{vii} -the Incarnation is the _Complement_ of Creation. -In it is revealed the true nature of that link which -binds together the visible and invisible worlds. -When the "Word was made Flesh," a bridge -was thrown across that gulf which had else for -ever separated the Finite from the Infinite. The -same high Truth which brings home to us the -doctrine of a Creation, consecrates that Creation, -reconstituting it into an Eden meet for an unfallen -Adam and an unfallen Eve; nay, exalting it into -a heavenly Jerusalem, the dwelling-place of the -Lamb and of the Bride. It does this, in part, -through symbols and associations founded on the -all-cleansing Blood and the all-sanctifying Spirit ---symbols and associations the reverse of those in -which an Epicurean mythology took delight, and -which the very superficial alone can confound -with such. This is perhaps the aspect of Religion -least above the level of Poetry. - -As to its form, the present work belongs to the -class of serial poems, a species of composition -happily revived in recent times, as by Wordsworth, -in his "Ecclesiastical Sketches," and "Sonnets -dedicated to Liberty," by Landor, and, with preeminent -success, by the author of "In Memoriam." -It was in common use among our earlier poets, -who derived it from Petrarch and the Italians. -Most often the interest of such poems was of a -personal sort, as in the serial sonnets of Shakespeare, -Spenser, Sidney, Drummond, Daniel, and -Drayton; as well as the "Aurora" of Lord -{viii} -Stirling, and the "Astrea" of Sir John Davies. -Occasionally, it was of a more abstract character. -In both cases, alike, advantage was derived -from a method of writing which unites an -indefinite degree of continuity with a somewhat -lawless variety, and which gains in brevity by -the omission of connecting bonds. In Herbert's -"Temple," Vaughan's "Silex Scintillans," and the -chief poems of Donne and Crashaw, the unity is -but that of kindred thoughts, and a common subject, -not of a complete design. Habington's -"Castara," a noble work too little known, combines a -personal with an abstract interest. In it many -poems on religious and philosophical subjects are -grouped for support round a single centre; that -centre being the sustained homage paid by the -poet to one not unworthy, apparently, of his -reverence and love. - -{ix}{x}{xi}{xii} - -CONTENTS - - - PAGE -Prologue xv - -PART I. - -Who feels not, when the Spring once more 3 -Upon Thy face, O God, thy world 5 -All but unutterable Name 6 -Sancta Maria 7 -Dei Genitrix 8 -Virgo Virginum 9 -Ascending from the convent-grates 11 -Adolescentulae amaverunt te nimis 12 -Mater Christi 13 -Mater Christi 14 -Mater Creatoris 15 -Mater Salvatoris 16 -Mater Dolorosa 17 -Mater Dolorosa 18 -Mater Admirabilis 19 -Mater Amabilis 20 -Mater Filii 21 -Mater Divinae Gratiae 22 -Mater Divinae Gratiae 23 -When April's sudden sunset cold 24 -As children when, with heavy tread 25 -Mariae Cliens 26 -Fest. Visitationis 28 -Not yet, not yet! the Season sings 29 -Fest. Nativitatis B.V.M. 30 -The moon, ascending o'er a mass 32 -A dream came to me while the night 33 -Fest. Purificationis 34 -Fest. Epiphaniae 35 -The sunless day is sweeter yet 36 -Legenda 37 - - -PART II. - -Conservabat in Corde 41 -Ascensio Domini 42 -Ascensio Domini 43 -Elias 44 -Stronger and steadier every hour 45 -Speculum Justitiae 46 -Munera 48 -Predestinata 49 -Three worlds there are:--the first of Sense-- 51 -Alas! not only loveliest eyes 52 -Idolatria 53 -Tota Pulchra 55 -Stella Matutina 57 -Janua Coeli 58 -If sense of Man's unworthiness 60 -Causa Nostra Laetitiae 61 -Stella Maris 62 -Blossom for ever, blossoming Rod! 64 -Unica 65 -Magnificat 66 -Mystica 67 -Expectatio 68 -Still on the gracious work proceeds 70 -Turris Eburnea 71 -Who doubts that thou art finite? Who 73 -They seek not; or amiss they seek 74 -A sudden sun-burst in the woods 75 -Dominica Pentecostes 76 -Dominica Pentecostes 78 -Turris Davidica 79 -"Tu sola interemisti omnes Haereses" 80 - - -PART III. - -In vain thine altars do they heap 83 -Babylon 84 -The golden rains are dashed against 85 -Sedes Sapientiae 86 -Sedes Sapientiae 87 -Here, in this paradise of light 88 -Fest. B.V.M. de Monte Carmelo 89 -Come from the midnight mountain tops 91 -Advocata Nostra 92 -Thronus Trinitatis 93 -Cultus Sanctorum 94 -Fest. S. S. Trinitatis 96 -Where is the crocus now, that first 98 -"Ad Nives" 99 -Fest. Puritatis 101 -Cloud-piercing Mountains! Chance and Change 103 -Foederis Arca 104 -Domus Aurea 105 -Respexit Humilitatem 106 -Respexit Humilitatem 107 -"Sine Labe originali Concepta" 109 -"Sine Labe originali Concepta" 110 -Brow-bound with myrtle and with gold 111 -Corpus Christi 112 -Corpus Christi 114 -Pleasant the swarm about the bough 115 -Sing on, wide winds, your anthems vast 116 -Coeli enarrant 117 -Caro factus est 119 -A woman "clothed with the sun" 121 -No ray or all their silken sheen 122 - -Epilogue 125 - - - -_PROLOGUE._ - - - - That sun-eyed Power which stands sublime - Upon the rock that crowns our globe, - Her feet on all the spoils of time, - With light eternal on her robe, - - She, sovereign of the orb she guides, - On Truth's broad sun may root a gaze - That deepens, onward as she rides, - And shrinks not from the fontal blaze: - - But they--her daughter Arts--must hide - Within the cleft, content to see - Dim skirts of glory waving wide, - And steps of parting Deity. - - 'Tis theirs to watch Religion break - In types from Nature's frown or smile, - The legend rise from out the lake, - The relic consecrate the isle. - - 'Tis theirs to adumbrate and suggest; - To point toward founts of buried lore; - Leaving, in reverence, unexpressed - What Man must know not, yet adore. - - For where her court true Wisdom keeps, - 'Mid loftier handmaids, one there stands - Dark as the midnight's starry deeps, - A Slave, gem-crowned, from Nubia's sands. - - O thou whose light is in thy heart - Love-taught Submission! without thee - Science may soar awhile; but Art - Drifts barren o'er a shoreless sea. - - -{3} - - -MAY CAROLS - - -PART I. - - - -MAY CAROLS. - - - -PART I. - - - -I. - - Who feels not, when the Spring once more, - Stepping o'er Winter's grave forlorn - With winged feet, retreads the shore - Of widowed Earth, his bosom burn? - - As ordered flower succeeds to flower, - And May the ladder of her sweets - Ascends, advancing hour by hour - From scale to scale, what heart but beats? - - Some Presence veiled, in fields and groves, - That mingles rapture with remorse;-- - Some buried joy beside us moves, - And thrills the soul with such discourse - -{4} - - As they, perchance, that wondering pair - Who to Emmaus bent their way, - Hearing, heard not. Like them our prayer - We make:--"The night is near us . . Stay!" - - With Paschal chants the churches ring; - Their echoes strike along the tombs; - The birds their Hallelujahs sing; - Each flower with floral incense fumes. - - Our long-lost Eden seems restored; - As on we move with tearful eyes - We feel through all the illumined sward - Some upward-working Paradise. - -{5} - -II. - - Upon Thy face, O God, Thy world - Looks ever up in love and awe; - Thy stars, in circles onward hurled, - Still weave the sacred chain of law. - - In alternating antiphons - Stream sings to stream and sea to sea; - And moons that set and sinking suns - Obeisance make, O God, to Thee. - - The swallow, winter's rage o'erblown, - Again, on warm May breezes borne, - Revisiteth her haunts well-known; - The lark is faithful to the morn. - - The whirlwind, missioned with its wings - To drown the fleet and fell the tower, - Obeys thee as the bird that sings - Her love-chant in a fleeting shower. - - Amid an ordered universe - Man's spirit only dares rebel:-- - With light, O God, its darkness pierce! - With love its raging chaos quell! - -{6} - - -III. - - All but unutterable Name! - Adorable, yet awful, sound! - Thee can the sinful nations frame - Save with their foreheads to the ground? - - Soul-searching and all-cleansing Fire! - To see Thy countenance were to die: - Yet how beyond the bound retire - Of Thy serene immensity? - - Thou mov'st beside us, if the spot - We change--a noteless, wandering tribe; - The orbits of our life and thought - In Thee their little arcs describe. - - In the dead calm, at cool of day, - We hear Thy voice, and turn, and flee:-- - Thy love outstrips us on our way: - From Thee, O God, we fly--to Thee. - - -{7} - - -_Sancta Maria._ - - -IV. - - Mary! To thee the humble cry. - What seek they? Gifts to Pride unknown. - They seek thy help--to pass thee by:-- - They murmur, "Show us but thy Son." - - The childlike heart shall enter in; - The virgin soul its God shall see:-- - Mother, and maiden pure from sin, - Be thou the guide: the Way is He. - - The mystery high of God made Man - Through thee to man is easier made: - Pronounce the consonant who can - Without the softer vowel's aid! - - -{8} - - -_Dei Genitrix._ - - -V. - - I see Him: on thy lap He lies - 'Mid that Judaean stable's gloom: - O sweet, O awful Sacrifice! - He smiles in sleep, yet knows His doom. - - Thou gav'st Him life! But was not this - That life which knows no parting breath? - Unmeasured life? unwaning bliss - Dread Priestess, lo! thou gav'st Him death! - - Beneath the tree thy mother stood: - Beneath the cross thou too shalt stand:-- - O Tree of Life! O bleeding Rood! - Thy shadow stretches far its hand. - - That God who made the sun and moon - In swaddling bands lies dumb and bound!-- - Love's Captive! darker prison soon - Awaits Thee in the garden ground. - - He wakens. Paradise looks forth - Beyond the portals of the grave. - Life, life thou gavest! life to Earth, - Not Him. Thine Infant dies to save. - - -{9} - -_Virgo Virginum._ - - -VI. - - When from their lurking place the Voice - Of God dragged forth that fallen pair, - Still seemed the garden to rejoice; - The sinless Eden still was fair. - - They, they alone, whose light of grace - But late made Paradise look dim, - Stood now, a blot upon its face, - Before their God; nor gazed on Him. - - They glanced not up; or they had seen - In that severe, death-dooming eye - Unutterable depths serene - Of sadly-piercing sympathy. - - Not them alone that Eye beheld, - But, by their side, that other Twain, - In whom the race whose doom was knelled - Once more should rise; once more should reign. - -{10} - - It saw that Infant crowned with blood;-- - And her from whose predestined breast - That Infant ruled the worlds. She stood, - Her foot upon the serpent's crest! - - Voice of primeval prophecy! - She who makes glad whatever heart - Adores her Son and Saviour, she - In thee, that hour, possessed a part! - - -{11} - - -VII. - - Ascending from the convent-grates, - The children mount the woodland vale. - 'Tis May-Day Eve; and Hesper waits - To light them, while the western gale - - Blows softly on their bannered line: - And, lo! down all the mountain stairs - The shepherd children come to join - The convent children at their prayers. - - They meet before Our Lady's fane: - On yonder central rock it stands, - Uplifting, ne'er invoked in vain, - That cross which blesses all the lands. - - Before the porch the flowers are flung; - The lamp hangs glittering 'neath the Rood; - The "Maris Stella" hymn is sung; - Their chant each morn to be renewed. - - Ah! if a secular muse might dare, - Far off, the children's song to catch; - To echo back, or burthen bear!-- - As fitly might she hope to match - - The linnet's note as theirs, 'tis true: - Yet, now and then, that borrowed tone, - Like sunbeams flashed on pine or yew, - Might shoot a sweetness through her own! - - -{12} - - -_Adolescentulae amaverunt te nimis._ - - -VIII. - - - "Behold! the wintry rains are past; - The airs of midnight hurt no more: - The young maids love thee. Come at last: - Thou lingerest at the garden-door. - - "Blow over all the garden; blow, - Thou wind that breathest of the south, - Through all the alleys winding low, - With dewy wing and honeyed mouth. - - "But wheresoever thou wanderest, shape - Thy music ever to one Name:-- - Thou too, clear stream, to cave and cape - Be sure thou whisper of the same. - - "By every isle and bower of musk - Thy crystal clasps, as on it curls, - We charge thee, breathe it to the dusk; - We charge thee, grave it in thy pearls." - - The stream obeyed. That Name he bore - Far out above the moon-lit tide. - The breeze obeyed. He breathed it o'er - The unforgetting pines; and died. - - -{13} - - -_Mater Christi._ - - -IX. - - Daily beneath His mother's eyes - Her Lamb matured His lowliness: - Twas hers the lovely Sacrifice - With fillet and with flower to dress. - - Beside His little cross He knelt; - With human-heavenly lips He prayed: - His Will within her will she felt; - And yet His Will her will obeyed. - - Gethsemané! when day is done - Thy flowers with falling dews are wet: - Her tears fell never; for the sun - Those tears that brightened never set. - - The house was silent as that shrine - The priest but entered once a year. - There shone His emblem. Light Divine! - Thy presence and Thy power was here! - - -{14} - - -_Mater Christi._ - - -X. - - He willed to lack; He willed to bear; - He willed by suffering to be schooled; - He willed the chains of flesh to wear: - Yet from her arms the worlds He ruled. - - As tapers 'mid the noontide glow - With merged yet separate radiance burn, - With human taste and touch, even so, - The things He knew He willed to learn. - - He sat beside the lowly door: - His homeless eyes appeared to trace - In evening skies remembered lore, - And shadows of His Father's face. - - One only knew Him. She alone - Who nightly to His cradle crept, - And lying like the moonbeam prone, - Worshipped her Maker as He slept. - - -{15} - - -_Mater Creatoris._ - - -XI. - - Bud forth a Saviour, Earth! fulfil - Thy first of functions, ever new! - Balm-dropping heaven, for aye distil - Thy grace like manna or like dew! - - "To us, this day, a Child is born.'" - Heaven knows not mere historic facts:-- - Celestial mysteries, night and morn, - Live on in ever-present Acts. - - Calvary's dread Victim in the skies - On God's great altar rests even now: - The Pentecostal glory lies - For ever round the Church's brow. - - From Son and Father, He, the Lord - Of Love and Life, proceeds alway: - Upon the first creative word - Creation, trembling, hangs for aye. - - Nor less ineffably renewed - Than when on earth the tie began, - Is that mysterious Motherhood - Which re-creates the worlds and man. - - -{16} - - -_Mater Salvatoris._ - - -XII. - - - O Heart with His in just accord! - O Soul His echo, tone for tone! - O Spirit that heard, and kept His word! - O Countenance moulded like His own! - - Behold, she seemed on Earth to dwell; - But, hid in light, alone she sat - Beneath the Throne ineffable, - Chanting her clear Magnificat. - - Fed from the boundless heart of God, - The joy within her rose more high - And all her being overflowed, - Until the awful hour was nigh. - - Then, then, there crept her spirit o'er - The shadow of that pain world-wide - Whereof her Son the substance bore:-- - Him offering, half in Him she died; - - Standing like that strange Moon, whereon - The mask of Earth lies dim and dead, - An orb of glory, shadow-strewn, - Yet girdled with a luminous thread. - - -{17} - - -_Mater Dolorosa._ - - -XIII. - - - She stood: she sank not. Slowly fell - Adown the Cross the atoning blood. - In agony ineffable - She offered still His own to God. - - No pang of His her bosom spared; - She felt in Him its several power. - But she in heart His Priesthood shared: - She offered Sacrifice that hour. - - "Behold thy Son!" Ah, last bequest! - It breathed His last farewell! The sword - Predicted pierced that hour her breast. - She stood: she answered not a word. - - His own in John He gave. She wore - Thenceforth the Mother-crown of Earth. - O Eve! thy sentence too she bore; - Like thee in sorrow she brought forth. - - -{18} - - -_Mater Dolorosa._ - - - -XIV. - - - From her He passed: yet still with her - The endless thought of Him found rest; - A sad but sacred branch of myrrh - For ever folded in her breast. - - A Boreal winter void of light-- - So seemed her widowed days forlorn: - She slept; but in her breast all night - Her heart lay waking till the morn. - - Sad flowers on Calvary that grew;-- - Sad fruits that ripened from the Cross;-- - These were the only joys she knew: - Yet all but these she counted loss. - - Love strong as Death! She lived through thee - That mystic life whose every breath - From Life's low harpstring amorously - Draws out the sweetened name of Death. - - Love stronger far than Death or Life! - Thy martyrdom was o'er at last - Her eyelids drooped; and without strife - To Him she loved her spirit passed. - - -{19} - -_Mater Admirabilis._ - - -XV. - - - O Mother-Maid! to none save thee - Belongs in full a Parent's name; - So fruitful thy Virginity, - Thy Motherhood so pure from blame! - - All other parents, what are they? - Thy types. In them thou stood'st rehearsed, - (As they in bird, and bud, and spray). - Thine Antitype? The Eternal First! - - Prime Parent He: and next Him thou! - Overshadowed by the Father's Might, - Thy "Fiat" was thy bridal vow; - Thine offspring He, the "Light of Light." - - Her Son Thou wert: her Son Thou art, - O Christ! Her substance fed Thy growth:-- - She shaped Thee in her virgin heart, - Thy Mother and Thy Father both! - - -{20} - - -_Mater Amabilis._ - - -XVI. - - Mother of Love! Thy love to Him - Cherub and seraph can but guess:-- - A mother sees its image dim - In her own breathless tenderness. - - That infant touch none else could feel - Vibrates like light through all her sense: - Far off she hears his cry: her zeal - With lions fights in his defence. - - Unmarked his youth goes by: his hair - Still smooths she down, still strokes apart: - The first white thread that meets her there - Glides, like a dagger, through her heart. - - Men praise him: on her matron cheek - There dawns once more a maiden red. - Of war, of battle-fields they speak: - She sees once more his father dead. - - In sickness--half in sleep--she hears - His foot, ere yet that foot is nigh: - Wakes with a smile; and scarcely fears, - If he but clasp her hand, to die. - - -{21} - - -_Mater Filii._ - - -XVII. - - - Others, the hours of youth gone by, - A mother's hearth and home forsake; - And, with the need, the filial tie - Relaxes, though it does not break. - - But Thou wert born to be a Son. - God's Son in heaven, Thy will was this, - To pass the chain of Sonship on, - And bind in one whatever is. - - Thou cam'st the _Son_ of Man to be, - That so Thy brethren too might bear - Adoptive Sonship, and with Thee - Thy Sire's eternal kingdom share. - - Transcendently the Son Thou art: - In this mysterious bond entwine, - As in a single, two-celled heart, - Thy natures, human and divine. - - - -{22} - - - -_Mater Divinae Gratiae._ - - -XVIII. - - - "They have no wine." The tender guest - Was grieved their feast should lack for aught. - He seemed to slight her mute request: - Not less the grace she wished He wrought. - - O great in Love! O full of Grace! - That winds in thee, a river broad, - From Christ, with heaven-reflecting face, - Gladdening the City of thy God:-- - - Be this thy gift: that man henceforth - No more should creep through life content - (Draining the springs impure of earth) - With life's material element. - - Let sacraments to sense succeed: - Let nought be winning, nought be good - Which fails of Him to speak, and bleed - Once more with His all-cleansing blood! - - - -{23} - - -_Mater Divinae Gratiae._ - - -XIX. - - - The gifts a mother showers each day - Upon her softly-clamorous brood: - The gifts they value but for play,-- - The graver gifts of clothes and food,-- - - Whence come they but from him who sows - With harder hand, and reaps, the soil; - The merit of his labouring brows, - The guerdon of his manly toil? - - From Him the Grace: through her it stands - Adjusted, meted, and applied; - And ever, passing through her hands, - Enriched it seems, and beautified. - - Love's mirror doubles Love's caress: - Love's echo to Love's voice is true:-- - Their Sire the children love not less - Because they clasp a Mother too. - - -{24} - -XX. - - - When April's sudden sunset cold - Through boughs half-clothed with watery sheen - Bursts on the high, new-cowslipped wold, - And bathes a world half gold half green, - - Then shakes the illuminated air - With din of birds; the vales far down - Grow phosphorescent here and there; - Forth flash the turrets of the town; - - Along the sky thin vapours scud; - Bright zephyrs curl the choral main; - The wild ebullience of the blood - Rings joy-bells in the heart and brain: - - Yet in that music discords mix; - The unbalanced lights like meteors play; - And, tired of splendours that perplex, - The dazzled spirit sighs for May. - - -{25} - - -XXI. - - - As children when, with heavy tread, - Men sad of face, unseen before, - Have borne away their mother dead-- - So stand the nations thine no more. - - From room to room those children roam, - Heart-stricken by the unwonted black: - Their house no longer seems their home: - They search; yet know not what they lack. - - Years pass: Self-Will and Passion strike - Their roots more deeply day by day; - Old servants weep; and "how unlike" - Is all the tender neighbours say. - - And yet at moments, like a dream, - A mother's image o'er them flits: - Like her's their eyes a moment beam; - The voice grows soft; the brow unknits. - - Such, Mary, are the realms once thine, - That know no more thy golden reign. - Hold forth from heaven thy Babe divine! - O make thine orphans thine again! - - -{26} - - -_Mariae Cliens._ - - -XXII. - - - A little longer on the earth - That aged creature's eyes repose - (Though half their light and all their mirth - Are gone); and then for ever close. - - She thinks that something done long since - Ill pleases God:--or why should He - So long delay to take her hence - Who waits His will so lovingly? - - Whene'er she hears the church-bells toll - She lifts her head, though not her eyes, - With wrinkled hands, but youthful soul, - Counting her lip-worn rosaries. - - And many times the weight of years - Falls from her in her waking dreams: - A child her mother's voice she hears: - To tend her father's steps she seems. - -{27} - - Once more she hears the whispering rains - On flowers and paths her childhood trod; - And of things present nought remains - Save the abiding sense of God. - - Mary! make smooth her downward way! - Not dearer to the young thou art - Than her. Make glad her latest May; - And hold her, dying, on thy heart. - - -{28} - - -_Fest. Visitationis._ - - -XXIII. - - - The hilly region crossed with haste, - Its last dark ridge discerned no more, - Bright as the bow that spans a waste - She stood beside her Cousin's door; - - And spake:--that greeting came from God! - Filled with the Spirit from on high - Sublime the aged Mother stood, - And cried aloud in prophecy,-- - - "Soon as thy voice had touched mine ears - The child in childless age conceived - Leaped up for joy! Throughout all years - Blessed the woman who believed." - - Type of Electing Love! 'tis thine - To speak God's greeting from the skies! - Thy voice we hear: thy Babe divine - At once, like John, we recognise. - - Within our hearts the second birth - Exults, though blind as yet and dumb. - The child of Grace his hands puts forth, - And prophesies of things to come. - - -{29} - - -XXIV. - - - Not yet, not yet! the Season sings - Not of fruition yet, but hope; - Still holds aloft, like balanced wings, - Her scales, and lets not either drop. - - The white ash, last year's skeleton, - Still glares, uncheered by leaf or shoot, - 'Gainst azure heavens, and joy hath none - In that fresh violet at her foot. - - Yet Nature's virginal suspense - Is not forgetfulness nor sloth: - Where'er we wander, soul and sense - Discern a blindly working growth. - - Her throne once more the daisy takes, - That white star of our dusky earth; - And the sky-cloistered lark down-shakes - Her passion of seraphic mirth. - - Twixt barren hills and clear cold skies - She weaves, ascending high and higher, - Songs florid as those traceries - Which took, of old, their name from fire. - - Sing! thou that need'st no ardent clime - To sun the sweetness from thy breast; - And teach us those delights sublime - Wherein ascetic spirits rest! - - -{30} - - -_Fest Nativitatis B.V.M._ - - -XXV. - - - When thou wert born the murmuring world - Boiled on, nor dreamed of things to be, - From joy to sorrow madly whirled;-- - Despair disguised in revelry. - - A princess thou of David's line; - The mother of the Prince of Peace; - That hour no royal pomps were thine: - The earth alone her boon increase. - - Before thee poured. September rolled - Down all the vine-clad Syrian slopes - Her breadths of purple and of gold; - And birds sang loud from olive tops. - - Perhaps old foes, they knew not why, - Relented. From a fount long sealed - Tears rose, perhaps, to Pity's eye: - Love-harvests crowned the barren field. - -{31} - - The respirations of the year. - At least, grew soft. O'er valleys wide - Pine-roughened crags again shone clear; - And the great Temple, far descried, - - To watchers, watching long in vain, - To patriots grey, in bondage nursed, - Flashed back their hope--"The Second Fane - In glory shall surpass the First!" - - -{32} - - -XXVI. - - - The moon, ascending o'er a mass - Of tangled yew and sable pine, - What sees she in yon watery glass? - A tearful countenance divine. - - Far down, the winding hills between, - A sea of vapour bends for miles, - Unmoving. Here and there, dim-seen, - The knolls above it rise like isles. - - The tall rock glimmers, spectre-white; - The cedar in its sleep is stirred; - At times the bat divides the night; - At times the far-off flood is heard. - - Above, that shining blue!--below, - That shining mist! O, not more pure - Midwinter's landscape, robed in snow, - And fringed with frosty garniture. - - The fragrance of the advancing year-- - That, that assures us it is May. - Ah, tell me! in the heavenlier sphere - Must all of earth have passed away? - - -{33} - - -XXVII. - - - A dream came to me while the night - Thinned off before the breath of morn, - Which filled my soul with such delight - As hers who clasps a babe new-born. - - I saw--in countenance like a child-- - (Three years methought were hers, no more) - That maid and mother undefiled - The Saviour of the world who bore. - - A nun-like veil was o'er her thrown; - Her locks by fillet-bands made fast, - Swiftly she climbed the steps of stone;-- - Into the Temple swiftly passed. - - Not once she paused her breath to take; - Not once cast back a homeward look:-- - As longs the hart his thirst to slake, - When noontide rages, in the brook, - - So longed that child to live for God; - So pined, from earth's enthralments free, - To bathe her wholly in the flood - Of God's abysmal purity! - - Anna and Joachim from far - Their eyes on that white vision raised: - And when, like caverned foam or star - Cloud-hid, she vanished, still they gazed. - - -{34} - - -_Fest. Purificationis._ - - -XXVIII. - - - Twelve years had passed, and, still a child, - In brightness of the unblemished face, - Once more she scaled those steps, and smiled - On Him who slept in her embrace. - - As in she passed there fell a calm - Around: each bosom slowly rose - Like the long branches of the palm - When under them the south wind blows. - - The scribe forgot his wordy lore; - The chanted psalm was heard far off; - Hushed was the clash of golden ore; - And hushed the Sadducean scoff. - - Type of the Christian Church! 'twas thine - To offer, first, to God that hour, - Thy Son--the Sacrifice Divine, - The Church's everlasting dower! - - Great Priestess! round that aureoled brow - Which cloud or shadow ne'er had crossed, - Began there not that hour to grow - A milder dawn of Pentecost? - - -{35} - - -_Fest. Epiphaniae._ - - -XXIX. - - - A veil is on the face of Truth: - She prophesies behind a cloud; - She ministers, in robes of ruth, - Nocturnal rites, and disallowed. - - Eleusis hints, but dares not speak; - The Orphic minstrelsies are dumb; - Lost are the Sibyl's books, and weak - Earth's olden faith in Him to come. - - But ah, but ah, that Orient Star! - On straw-roofed shed and large-eyed kine - It flashes, guiding from afar - The Magians to the Child Divine. - - Gold, frankincense, and myrrh they bring-- - Love, Worship, Life severe and hard: - Well pleased the symbol gifts the King - Accepts; and Truth is their reward. - - Rejoice, O Sion, for thy night - Is past: the Lord, thy Light, is born. - The Gentiles shall behold thy light; - The kings walk forward in thy morn. - - -{36} - - -XXX. - - - The sunless day is sweeter yet - Than when the golden sun-showers danced - On bower new-glazed or rivulet; - And Spring her banners first advanced. - - By wind unshaken hang in dream - The wind-flowers o'er their dark green lair; - And those thin poppy cups that seem - Not bodied forms, but woven of air. - - Nor bird is heard; nor insect flits. - A tear-drop glittering on her cheek, - Composed but shadowed, Nature sits-- - Yon primrose not more staid and meek. - - The light of pensive hope unquenched - On those pathetic brows and eyes, - She sits, by silver dew-showers drenched, - Through which the chill spring-odours rise. - - Was e'er on human countenance shed - So sweet a sadness? Once: no more. - Then when his charge the Patriarch led - Dream-warned to Egypt's distant shore. - - Down on her Infant Mary gazed; - Her face the angels marked with awe; - Yet 'neath its dimness, undisplaced, - Looked forth that smile the Magians saw. - - -{37} - -_Legenda._ - - -XXXI. - - As, flying Herod, southward went - That Child and Mother, unamazed, - Into Egyptian banishment, - The weeders left their work, and gazed. - - The bright One spake to them and said, - "When Herod's messengers demand, - "Passed not the Infant, Herod's dread,-- - "Passed not the Infant through your land? - - "Then shall ye answer make, and say, - "Behold, since first the corn was green - "No little Infant passed this way; - "No little Infant we have seen." - - Earth heard; nor missed the Maid's intent-- - As on the Flower of Eden passed - With Eden swiftness up she sent - A sun-browned harvest ripening fast. - - By simplest words and sinless wheat - The messengers rode back beguiled; - And by that truthfullest deceit - Which saved the little new-born Child! - - -{38} - - -PART II. - - -{39}{40} - -{41} - - -PART II. - -_Conservabat in Corde._ - - -I. - - - As every change of April sky - Is imaged in a placid brook, - Her meditative memory - Mirrored His every deed and look. - - As suns through summer ether rolled - Mature each growth the spring has wrought, - So Love's strong day-star turned to gold - Her harvests of quiescent thought. - - Her soul was as a vase, and shone - Translucent to an inner ray; - Her Maker's finger wrote thereon - A mystic Bible new each day. - - Deep Heart! In all His sevenfold might - The Paraclete with thee abode; - And, sacramented there in light, - Bore witness of the things of God. - - -{42} - - -_Ascensio Domini_. - - -II. - - - Rejoice, O Earth, thy crown is won! - Rejoice, rejoice, ye heavenly host! - And thou, the Mother of the Son, - Rejoice the first; rejoice the most! - - Who captive led captivity-- - From Hades' void circumference - Who led the Patriarch Band on high, - There rules, and sends us graces thence. - - Rejoice, glad Earth, o'er winter's grave - With altars wreathed and clarions blown; - And thou, the Race Redeemed, outbrave - The rites of nature with thine own! - - Rejoice, O Mary! thou that long - Didst lean thy breast upon the sword-- - Sad nightingale, the Spirit's song - That sang'st all night! He reigns, restored! - - Rejoice! He goes, the Paraclete - To send! Rejoice! He reigns on high! - The sword lies broken at thy feet-- - His triumph is thy victory! - - -{43} - - -_Ascensio Domini._ - - -III. - - I take this reed--I know the hand - That wields it must ere long be dust-- - And write, upon the fleeting sand - Each wind can shake, the words, "I trust." - - And if that sand one day was stone - And stood in courses near the sky, - For towers by earthquake overthrown, - Or mouldering piecemeal, what care I? - - Things earthly perish: life to death - And death to life in turn succeeds. - The spirit never perisheth: - The chrysalis its Psyche breeds. - - True life alone is that which soars - To Him who triumphed o'er the grave: - With Him, on life's eternal shores, - I trust one day a part to have. - - Ah, hark! above the springing corn - That chime; in every breeze it swells! - Ye bells that wake the Ascension morn, - Ye give us back our Paschal bells! - - -{44} - - -_Elias._ - - -IV. - - O thou that rodest up the skies, - Thy task fulfilled, on steeds of fire,-- - That somewhere, sealed from mortal eyes, - Some air immortal dost respire! - - Thou that in heavenly beams enshrined, - In quiet lulled of soul and flesh, - With one great thought of God thy mind - Dost everlastingly refresh! - - Where art thou? age succeeds to age; - Thou dost not hear their fret and jar: - With thy celestial hermitage - Successive winters wage not war. - - Still as a corse with field-flowers strewn - Thou liest; on God thine eyes are bent: - And the fire-breathing stars alone - Look in upon thy cloudy tent. - - Behold, there is a debt to pay! - Like Enoch, hid thou art on high: - But both shall back return one day, - To gaze once more on earth, and die. - - -{45} - -V. - - Stronger and steadier every hour - The pulses of the season's glee, - As toward her zenith climbs that Power - Which rules the purple revelry. - - Trees, that from winter's grey eclipse - Of late but pushed their topmost plume, - Or felt with green-touched finger-tips - For spring, their perfect robes assume. - - Like one that reads, not one that spells, - The unvarying rivulet onward runs: - And bird to bird, from leafier cells, - Sends forth more leisurely response. - - Through the gorse covert bounds the deer:-- - The gorse, whose latest splendours won - Make all the fulgent wolds appear - Bright as the pastures of the sun. - - A balmier zephyr curls the wave; - More purple flames o'er ocean dance; - And the white breaker by the cave - Falls with more cadenced resonance; - - While, vague no more, the mountains stand - With quivering line or hazy hue; - But drawn with finer, firmer hand, - And settling into deeper blue. - - -{46} - - -_Speculum Justitiae._ - - -VI. - - - Not in Himself the Eternal Word - Lay hid upon creation's day: - His Loveliness abroad He poured - On all the worlds; and pours for aye. - - Not in Himself the Incarnate Son, - In whom Man's race is born again, - His glory hides. The victory won, - He rose to send His "Gifts on Men." - - In sacraments--His dread behests; - In Providence; in granted prayer; - Before the time He manifests - His glory, far as man may bear. - - He shines not from a vault of gloom; - The horizon vast His splendour paints: - Both heaven and earth His beams illume; - His light is glorious in His saints. - -{47} - - He shines upon His Church--that Moon - Who, in the watches of the night, - Transmits to man the entrusted boon; - A sister orb of sacred light. - - And thou, pure mirror of His grace!-- - As sun reflected in a sea-- - So, Mary, feeblest eyes the face - Of Him thou lovest discern in thee. - - -{48} - - -_Munera._ - - -VII. - - Not for herself does Mary hold - Among the saints that queenly throne, - Her seat predestined from of old; - But for the brethren of her Son. - - Pure thoughts that make to God their quest, - With her find footing o'er the clouds; - Like those sea-crossing birds that rest - A moment on the sighing shrouds. - - In her our hearts, no longer nursed - On dust, for spiritual beauty yearn; - From her our instincts, as at first, - An upward gravitation learn. - - Her distance makes her not remote: - For in true love's supernal sphere - No more round self the affections float-- - More near to God, to man more near. - - In her, the weary warfare past, - The port attained, the exile o'er, - We see the Church's barque at last - Close-anchored on the eternal shore! - - -{49} - - -_Predestinata._ - - -VIII. - - Eternal Beauty, ere the spheres - Had rolled from out the gulfs of night, - Sparkled, through all the unnumbered years, - Before the Eternal Father's sight. - - Like objects seen by Man in dream, - Or landscape glassed on morning mist, - Before His eyes it hung--a gleam - Flashed from the eternal Thought of Christ. - - It stood the Archetype sublime - Of that fair world of finite things - Which, in the bands of Space and Time, - Creation's glittering verge enrings. - - Star-like within the depths serene - Of that still vision, Mary, thou - With Him, thy Son, of God wert seen - Millenniums ere the lucid brow - -{50} - - Of Eye o'er Eden founts had bent,-- - Millenniums ere that second Fair - With dust the hopes of man had blent, - And stained the brightness once so fair. - - Elect of Creatures! Man in thee - Beholds that primal Beauty yet,-- - Sees all that Man was formed to be,-- - Sees all that Man can ne'er forget! - -{51} - -IX. - - Three worlds there are:--the first of Sense-- - That sensuous earth which round us lies; - The next of Faith's Intelligence; - The third of Glory, in the skies. - - The first is palpable, but base; - The second heavenly, but obscure; - The third is star-like in the face-- - But ah! remote that world as pure! - - Yet, glancing through our misty clime, - Some sparkles from that loftier sphere - Make way to earth;--then most what time - The annual spring-flowers re-appear. - - Amid the coarser needs of earth - All shapes of brightness, what are they - But wanderers, exiled from their birth, - Or pledges of a happier day? - - Yea, what is Beauty, judged aright, - But some surpassing, transient gleam; - Some smile from heaven, in waves of light, - Rippling o'er life's distempered dream? - - Or broken memories of that bliss - Which rushed through first-born Nature's blood - When He who ever was, and is, - Looked down, and saw that all was good? - -{52} - -X. - - Alas! not only loveliest eyes, - And brows with lordliest lustre bright, - But Nature's self--her woods and skies-- - The credulous heart can cheat or blight. - - And why? Because the sin of man - Twixt Fair and Good has made divorce; - And stained, since Evil first began, - That stream so heavenly at its source. - - O perishable vales and groves! - Your master was not made for you; - Ye are but creatures: human loves - Are to the great Creator due. - - And yet, through Nature's symbols dim, - There are with keener sight that pierce - The outward husk, and reach to Him - Whose garment is the universe. - - For this to earth the Saviour came - In flesh; in part for this He died; - That man might have, in soul and frame, - No faculty unsanctified. - - That Fancy's self--so prompt to lead - Through paths disastrous or defiled-- - Upon the Tree of Life might feed; - And Sense with Soul be reconciled. - - -{53} - - -_Idolatria._ - - -XI. - - The fancy of an age gone by, - When Fancy's self to earth declined, - Still thirsting for Divinity, - Yet still, through sense, to Godhead blind, - - Poor mimic of that Truth of old, - The patriarchs' hope--a faith revealed-- - Compressed its God in mortal mould, - The prisoner of Creation's field. - - Nature and Nature's Lord were one! - Then countless gods from cloud and stream - Glanced forth; from sea, and moon, and sun: - So ran the pantheistic dream. - - And thus the All-Holy, thus the All-True, - The One Supreme, the Good, the Just, - Like mist was scattered, lost like dew, - And vanished in the wayside dust. - -{54} - - Mary! through thee the idols fell: - When He the nations longed for [Footnote 1] came-- - True God yet Man--with man to dwell, - The phantoms hid their heads for shame. - - [Footnote 1: "The Desire of the Nations."] - - His place or thine removed, ere long - The bards would push the sects aside; - And lifted by the might of song - Olympus stand re-edified. - -{55} - -_Tota Pulchra._ - - -XII. - - A broken gleam on wave and flower-- - A music that in utterance dies-- - O Poets, and O Men! what more - Is all that Beauty which ye prize? - - And ah! how oft Corruption works - Through that brief Beauty's force or wile! - How oft a gloom eternal lurks - Beneath an evanescent smile! - - But thou, serene and smiling light - Of every grace redeemed from Sense, - In thee all harmonies unite - That charm a pure Intelligence. - - Whatever teaches mind or heart - To God by loveliest types to mount, - Mary, is thine. Of each true Art - The parent art thou, and the fount. - -{56} - - Those pictures, fair as moon or star, - The ages dear to Faith brought forth, - Formed but the illumined calendar - Of her, that Church which knows thy worth. - - Not less doth Nature teach through thee - That mystery hid in hues and lines: - Who loves thee not hath lost the key - To all her sanctuaries and shrines. - - -{57} - - -_Stella Matutina._ - - -XIII. - - - Shine out, O Star, and sing the praise - Of that unrisen Sun whose glow - Thus feeds thee with thine earlier rays-- - The secret of thy song we know. - - Thou sing'st that Sun of Righteousness, - Sole light of this benighted globe, - Whose beams, reflected, dressed and dress - His Mother in her shining robe. - - Pale Lily, pearled around with dew, - Lift high that heaven-illumined vase, - And sing the glories ever new - Of her, God's chalice, "full of grace." - - Cerulean Ocean, fringed with white, - That wear'st her colours evermore, - In all thy pureness, all thy might, - Resound her name from shore to shore. - - That fringe of foam, when drops the sun - To-night, a sanguine stain shall wear:-- - Thus Mary's heart had strength, alone, - The passion of her Lord to share. - - -{58} - - -_Janua Coeli._ - - -XIV. - - - The night through yonder cloudy cleft, - With many a lingering last regard, - Withdraws--but slowly--and hath left - Her mantle on the dewy sward. - - The lawns with silver dews are strewn; - The winds lie hushed in cave and tree; - Nor stirs a flower, save one alone - That bends beneath the earliest bee. - - Peace over all the garden broods; - Pathetic sweets the thickets throng; - Like breath the vapour o'er the woods - Ascends--dim woods without a song: - - Or hangs, a shining, fleece-like mass - O'er half yon lake that winds afar - Among the forests, still as glass, - The mirror of that Morning Star - -{59} - - Which, halfway wandering from the sky, - Amid the rose of morn delays - And (large and less alternately) - Bends down a lustrous, tearful gaze. - - Mother and home of spirits blest! - Bright gate of Heaven and golden bower! - Thy best of blessings, love and rest, - Depart not till on earth thou shower! - -{60} - -XV. - - If sense of Man's unworthiness - With Nature's blameless looks at strife, - Should wake with wakening May, and press - New-born contentment out of life: - - If thoughts of sable breed and blind - Should stamp upon the springing flower, - Or blacker memories haunt the mind - As ravens haunt the ruined tower:-- - - O then how sweet in heart to breathe - Those pure Judean gales once more; - From Bethlehem's crib to Nazareth - In heart to tread that Syrian shore! - - To watch that star-like Infant bring - To one of soul as clear and white - May-lilies, fresh from Siloa's spring, - Or Passion-flower with May-dews bright! - - To follow, earlier yet, the feet - Of her the "hilly land" who trod - With true love's haste, intent to greet - That aged saint beloved of God. - - Before her, like a stream let loose, - The long vale's flowerage, winding, ran: - Nature resumed her Eden use; - And Earth was reconciled with Man. - - -{61} - - -_Causa Nostra Laetitiae._ - - -XVI. - - Whate'er is floral on the earth - To thee, O Flower, of right belongs; - Whate'er is musical in mirth, - Whate'er is jubilant in songs. - - Childhood and springtide never cease - For him thy freshness keeps from stain: - Dew-drenched for him, like Gideon's fleece, - The dusty paths of life remain. - - Spirit of Brightness and of Bliss! - Thou threaten'st none! A sinless lure, - Thy fragrance and thy gladsomeness - Draw on to Christ; to Christ secure. - - Hope, Hope is Strength! That joy of thine - To us is Glory's earliest ray! - Through Faith's dim air, O star benign, - Look down, and light our onward way! - - -{62} - - -_Stella Maris._ - - -XVII. - - - I left at morn that blissful shore - O'er which the fruit-bloom fluttered free; - And sailed the wildering waters o'er, - Till sunset streaked with blood the sea. - - My sleep the hoarse sea-thunders broke, - And sudden chill. Their feet foam-hid, - Huge cliffs leaned out, through vapour-smoke, - Like tower, and tomb, and pyramid. - - In the black shadow, ghostly white - The breaker raced o'er foaming shoals: - From caverns of eternal night - Came wailings, as of suffering souls. - - Sudden, through clearing mists, the star - Of ocean o'er the billow rose: - Down dropped the elemental war; - Tormented chaos found repose. - -{63} - - Star of the ocean! dear art thou, - Ah! not to earth and heaven alone: - The suffering Church, when shines thy brow - Upon her penance, stays her moan. - - The Holy Souls draw in their breath; - The sea of anguish rests in peace; - And, from beyond the gates of death, - Up swell the anthems of release. - -{64} - -XVIII. - - Blossom for ever, blossoming Rod! - Thou did'st not blossom once to die: - That Life which, issuing forth from God, - Thy life enkindled, runs not dry. - - Without a root in sin-stained earth, - 'Twas thine to bud Salvation's flower. - No single soul the Church brings forth - But blooms from thee and is thy dower. - - Rejoice, O Eve! thy promise waned; - Transgression nipt thy flower with frost - But, lo! a mother man hath gained - Holier than she in Eden lost. - - -{65} - - -_Unica._ - - -XIX. - - While all the breathless woods aloof - Lie hush'd in noontide's deep repose, - That dove, sun-warmed on yonder roof, - With what a grave content she coos! - - One note for her! Deep streams run smooth - The ecstatic song of transience tells. - O what a depth of loving truth - In thy divine contentment dwells! - - All day, with down-dropt lids, I sat, - In trance; the present scene forgone. - When Hesper rose, on Ararat, - Methought, not English hills, he shone. - - Back to the ark, the waters o'er, - The primal dove pursued her flight: - A branch of that blest tree she bore - Which feeds the Church with holy light. - - I heard her rustling through the air - With sliding plume--no sound beside, - Save the sea-sobbings everywhere, - And sighs of that subsiding tide. - -{66} - - -_Magnificat._ - - -XX. - - She took the timbrel, as the tide - Rushed, refluent, up the Red Sea shore: - "The Lord hath triumphed," she cried: - Her song rang out above the roar - - Of lustral waves that, wall to wall, - Fell back upon the host abhorred: - Above the gloomy watery pall, - As eagles soar, her anthem soared. - - Miriam, rejoice! a mightier far - Than thou, one day shall sing with thee! - Who rises, brightening like a star - Above yon bright baptismal sea? - - That harp which David touched who rears - Heaven-high above those waters wide? - The Prophet-Queen! Throughout all years - She sings the Triumph of the Bride! - - -{67} - - -_Mystica._ - - -XXI. - - As pebbles flung for sport, that leap - Along the superficial tide, - But enter not those chambers deep - Wherein the beds of pearl abide; - - Such those light minds that, grazing, spurn - The surface text of Sacred Lore, - Yet ne'er its deeper sense discern, - Its hails of mystery ne'er explore. - - Ah! not for such the unvalued gems; - The priceless pearls of Truth they miss: - Not theirs the starry diadems - That light God's temple in the abyss! - - Ah! not for such to gaze on her - That moves through all that empire pale; - At every shrine doth minister, - Yet never drops her vestal veil. - - "The letter kills." Make pure thy Will; - So shalt thou pierce the Text's disguise: - Till then, revere the veil that still - Hides truth from truth-affronting eyes. - -{68} - - -_Expectatio._ - - -XXII. - - - A sweet exhaustion seems to hold - In spells of calm the shrouded eve: - The gorse itself a beamless gold - Puts forth:--yet nothing seems to grieve. - - The dewy chaplets hang on air; - The willowy fields are silver-grey; - Sad odours wander here and there;-- - And yet we feel that it is May. - - Relaxed, and with a broken flow, - From dripping bowers low carols swell - In mellower, glassier tones, as though - They mounted through a bubbling well. - - The crimson orchis scarce sustains - Upon its drenched and drooping spire - The burden of the warm soft rains; - The purple hills grow nigh and nigher. - -{69} - - Nature, suspending lovely toils, - On expectations lovelier broods, - Listening, with lifted hand, while coils - The flooded rivulet through the woods. - - She sees, drawn out in vision clear, - A world with summer radiance drest, - And all the glories of that year - Which sleeps within her virgin breast. - - -{70} - -XXIII. - - Still on the gracious work proceeds;-- - The good, great tidings preached anew - Yearly to green enfranchised meads, - And fire-topped woodlands flushed with dew. - - Yon cavern's mouth we scarce can see; - Yon rock in gathering bloom lies meshed; - And all the wood-anatomy - In thickening leaves is over-fleshed. - - That hermit oak which frowned so long - Upon the spring with barren spleen, - Yields to the holy Siren's song, - And bends above her goblet green. - - Young maples, late with gold embossed,-- - Lucidities of sun-pierced limes, - No more surprise us--merged and lost - Like prelude notes in deepening chimes. - - Disordered beauties and detached - Demand no more a separate place: - The abrupt, the startling, the unmatched, - Submit to graduated grace; - - While upward from the ocean's marge - The year ascends with statelier tread - To where the sun his golden targe - Finds, setting, on yon mountain's head. - - -{71} - -_Turris Eburnea._ - - -XXIV. - - This scheme of worlds, which vast we call, - Is only vast compared with man: - Compared with God, the One yet All, - Its greatness dwindles to a span. - - A Lily with its isles of buds - Asleep on some unmeasured sea:-- - O God, the starry multitudes, - What are they more than this to Thee? - - Yet girt by Nature's petty pale - Each tenant holds the place assigned - To each in Being's awful scale:-- - The last of creatures leaves behind - - The abyss of nothingness: the first - Into the abyss of Godhead peers; - Waiting that vision which shall burst - In glory on the eternal years. - -{72} - - Tower of our Hope! through thee we climb - Finite creation's topmost stair; - Through thee from Sion's height sublime - Towards God we gaze through purer air. - - Infinite distance still divides - Created from Creative Power; - But all which intercepts and hides - Lies dwarfed by that surpassing Tower! - -{73} - -XXV. - - Who doubts that thou art finite? Who - Is ignorant that from Godhead's height - To what is loftiest here below - The interval is infinite? - - O Mary! with that smile thrice-blest - Upon their petulance look down;-- - Their dull negation, cold protest-- - Thy smile will melt away their frown! - - Show them thy Son! That hour their heart - Will beat and burn with love like thine; - Grow large; and learn from thee that art - Which communes best with things divine. - - The man who grasps not what is best - In creaturely existence, he - Is narrowest in the brain; and least - Can grasp the thought of Deity. - -{74} - -XXVI. - - They seek not; or amiss they seek;-- - The cold slight heart and captious brain:-- - To Love alone those instincts speak - Whose challenge never yet was vain. - - True Gate of Heaven! As light through glass, - So He who never left the sky - To this low earth was pleased to pass - Through thine unstained Virginity. - - Summed up in thee our hearts behold - The glory of created things:-- - From His, thy Son's, corporeal mould - Looks forth the eternal King of Kings! - -{75} - -XXVII. - - A sudden sun-burst in the woods, - But late sad Winter's palace dim! - O'er quickening boughs and bursting buds - Pacific glories shoot and swim. - - As when some heart, grief-darkened long, - Conclusive joy by force invades-- - So swift the new-born splendours throng; - Such lustre swallows up the shades. - - The sun we see not; but his fires - From stem to stem obliquely smite, - Till all the forest aisle respires - The golden-tongued and myriad light. - - The caverns blacken as their brows - With floral fire are fringed; but all - Yon sombre vault of meeting boughs - Turns to a golden fleece its pall, - - As o'er it breeze-like music rolls. - O Spring, thy limit-line is crossed! - O Earth, some orb of singing Souls - Brings down to thee _thy_ Pentecost! - - -{76} - -_Dominica Pentecostes._ - -XXVIII. - - Clear as those silver trumps of old - That woke Judea's jubilee; - Strong as the breeze of morning, rolled - O'er answering woodlands from the sea, - - That matutinal anthem vast - Which winds, like sunrise, round the globe, - Following the sunrise, far and fast, - And trampling on his fiery robe. - - Once more the Pentecostal torch - Lights on the courses of the year: - The "upper chamber" of the Church - Is thrilled once more with joy and fear. - - Who lifts her brow from out the dust? - Who fixes on a world restored - A gaze like Eve's, but more august? - Who bends it heaven-ward on her Lord? - -{77} - - It is the Birthday of the Bride. - The new begins; the ancient ends: - From all the gates of Heaven flung wide - The promised Paraclete descends. - - He who o'er-shadowed Mary once - O'ershades Humanity to-day; - And bids her fruitful prove in sons - Co-heritors with Christ for aye. - - -{78} - - -_Dominica Pentecostes._ - - -XXIX. - - The Form decreed of tree and flower, - The shape susceptible of life, - Without the infused vivific Power, - Were but a slumber or a strife. - - He whom the plastic hand of God - Himself created out of earth - Remained a statue and a clod - Till spirit infused to life gave birth. - - So, till that hour, the Church. In Christ - Her awful structure, nerve and bone, - Though built, and shaped, and organised, - Existed but in skeleton; - - Till down on that predestined frame, - Complete through all its sacred mould, - The Pentecostal Spirit came,-- - The self-same Spirit who of old - - Creative o'er the waters moved. - Thenceforth the Church, made One and Whole, - Arose in Him, and lived, and loved-- - His Temple she; and He her Soul. - - -{79} - - -_Turris Davidica._ - - -XXX. - - The towered City loves thee well, - Strong Tower of David's House! In thee - She hails the unvanquished citadel - That frowns o'er Error's subject sea. - - With magic might that Tower repels - A host that breaks where foe is none,-- - No foe but statued Saints in cells - High-ranged, and smiling in the sun. - - There stands Augustin; Leo there; - And Bernard, with a maiden face - Like John's; and, strong at once and fair, - That Spirit-Pythian, Athanase. - - Upon thy star-surrounded height - God's angel keepeth watch and ward; - And sunrise flashes thence ere night - Hath left dark street and dewy sward. - - -{80} - - -_"Tu sola interemisti omnes Haereses."_ - - -XXXI. - - What tenderest hand uprears on high - The standard of Incarnate God? - Successive portents that deny - Her Son, who tramples? She who trod - - On Satan erst with starlike scorn! - Ah! never Alp looked down through mist - As she, that whiter star of morn, - Through every cloud that darkens Christ! - - Roll back the centuries:--who were those - That, age by age, their Lord denied? - Their seats they set with Mary's foes:-- - They mocked the Mother as the Bride. - - Of such was Arius; and of such - He whom the Ephesian Sentence felled, [Footnote 2] - Her Title triumphed. At the touch [Footnote 3] - Of Truth the insurgent rout was quelled. - - [Footnote 2: Nestorius.] - - [Footnote 3: Dei-para.] - - Back, back the hosts of Hell were driven - As forth that sevenfold thunder rolled:-- - And in the Church's mystic Heaven - There was great silence as of old. - -{81} - -MAY CAROLS. - - -PART III. - - -{82} - -{83} - - -PART III. - - -I. - - In vain thine altars do they heap - With blooms of violated May - Who fail the words of Christ to keep; - Thy Son who love not, nor obey. - - Their songs are as a serpent's hiss; - Their praise a poniard's poisoned edge; - Their offering taints, like Judas' kiss, - Thy shrine; their vows are sacrilege. - - Sadly from such thy countenance turns: - Thou canst not stretch thy Babe to such - (Albeit for all thy pity yearns) - As greet Him with a leper's touch. - - Who loveth thee must love thy Son. - Weak Love grows strong thy smile beneath: - But nothing comes from nothing; none - Can reap Love's harvest out of Death. - - -{84} - - -_Babylon._ - - -II. - - The watchman watched along the walls: - And lo! an hour or more ere light - Loud rang his trumpet. From their halls - The revellers rushed into the night. - - There hung a terror on the air; - There moved a terror under ground;-- - The hostile hosts, heard everywhere, - Within, without--were nowhere found. - - "The Christians to the lions! Ho!"-- - Alas! self-tortured crowds, let be! - Let go your wrath; your fears let go: - Ye gnaw the net, but cannot flee. - - Ye drank from out Orestes' cup; - Orestes' Furies drave ye wild. - Who conquers from on high? Look up! - A Woman, holding forth a Child! - -{85} - -III. - - The golden rains are dashed against - Those verdant walls of lime and beech - With which our happy vale is fenced - Against the north; yet cannot reach - - The stems that lift yon leafy crest - High up above their dripping screen: - The chestnut fans are downward pressed - On banks of bluebell hid in green. - - White vapours float along the glen, - Or rise from every sunny brake;-- - A pause amid the gusts--again - The warm shower sings across the lake. - - Sing on, all-cordial showers, and bathe - The deepest root of loftiest pine! - The cowslip dimmed, the "primrose rathe" - Refresh; and drench in nectarous wine - - Yon fruit-tree copse, all blossomed o'er - With forest-foam and crimson snow-- - Behold! above it bursts once more - The world-embracing, heavenly bow! - -{86} - - -_Sedes Sapientiae._ - - -IV. - - O that the wordy war might cease! - Self-sentenced Babel's strife of tongues! - Loud rings the arena. Athletes, peace! - Nor drown the wild-dove's Song of Songs. - - Alas, the wanderers feel their loss: - With tears they seek--ah, seldom found-- - That peace whose volume is the Cross; - That peace which leaves not holy ground. - - Mary, who loves true peace loves thee! - A happy child, not taught of Scribes, - He stands beside the Church's knee; - From her the lore of Christ imbibes. - - Hourly he drinks it from her face: - For there his eyes, he knows not how, - The face of Him she loves can trace, - And, crowned with thorns, the sovereign brow. - - "Behold! all colours blend in white! - Behold! all Truths have root in Love!" - So sings, half lost in light of light, - Her Song of Songs the mystic Dove. - - -{87} - - -_Sedes Sapientiae._ - - -V. - - "Wisdom hath built herself a House, - And hewn her out her pillars seven." [Footnote 4] - Her wine is mixed. Her guests are those - Who share the harvest-home of heaven. - - [Footnote 4: Proverbs ix. 1.] - - Who guards the gates? The flaming sword - Of Penance. Every way it turns: - But healing from on high is poured - On each that fire seraphic burns. - - The fruits upon her table piled - Are gathered from the Tree of Life. - Around are ranged the undefiled, - And those that conquered in the strife. - - Who tends the guests? Who smiles away - Sad memories? bids misgiving cease? - A crowned one countenanced like the day-- - The Mother of the Prince of Peace. - -{88} - -VI. - - Here, in this paradise of light, - Superfluous were both tree and grass: - Enough to watch the sunbeams smite - Yon white flower sole in the morass. - - From his cold nest the skylark springs; - Sings, pauses, sings; shoots up anew; - Attains his topmost height, and sings - Quiescent in his vault of blue. - - With eyes half-closed I watch that lake - Flashed from whose plane the sun-sparks fly, - Like souls new-born that shoot and break - From thy deep sea, Eternity! - - Ripplings of sunlight from the wave - Ascend the white rock, high and higher; - Soft gurglings fill the satiate cave; - Soft airs amid the reeds expire. - - All round the lone and luminous meer - The dark world stretches, far and free: - That skylark's song alone I hear; - That flashing wave alone I see. - - O myriad Earth! Where'er thy Word - Makes way indeed into the soul, - An answering echo there is stirred:-- - Of thee the part is as the whole. - -{89} - -_Fest. B.V.M. de Monte Carmelo._ - - -VII. - - Carmel, with Alp and Apennine, - Low whispers in the wind that blows - Beneath the Eastern stars, ere shine - The lights of morning on their snows. - - Of thee, Elias, Carmel speaks, - And that white cloud, so small at first, - Thou saw'st approach the mountain peaks - To quench a dying nation's thirst. - - On Carmel, like a sheathed sword, - Thy monks abode till Jesus came; - On Carmel then they served their Lord;-- - Then Carmel rang with Mary's name. - - Blow over all the garden; blow - O'er all the garden of the West, - Balm-breathing Orient! Whisper low - The secret of thy spicy nest. - -{90} - - "Who from the Desert upward moves - Like cloud of incense onward borne? - Who, moving, rests on Him she loves? - Who mounts from regions of the Morn? - - "Behold! The apple-tree beneath-- - There where of old thy Mother fell-- - I raised thee up. More strong than Death - Is Love;--more strong than Death or Hell." [Footnote 5] - - [Footnote 5: Cant. viii. 5.] - -{91} - - -VIII. - - Come from the midnight mountain tops, - The mountains where the panthers play: - Descend; the veil of darkness drops; - Come fair and fairer than the day! - - Our hearts are wounded with thine eyes: - They character in words of light - Thereon the mystery of the skies: - The "Name o'er every name" they write. - - Come from thy Lebanonian peaks - Whose sacerdotal cedars nod - Above the world, when morning breaks-- - The Mountain of the House of God. - - The land thou lov'st--well is she! - The ploughers on her back may plough; - But in her vales upgrows the Tree - Of Life, and binds the bleeding brow. - -{92} - - -_Advocata Nostra._ - - -IX. - - I saw, in visions of the night, - Creation like a sea outspread, - With surf of stars and storm of light - And movements manifold and dread. - - Then lo, within a Human Hand - A Sceptre moved that storm above: - Thereon, as on the golden wand - Of kings new-crowned, there sat a Dove. - - Beneath her gracious weight inclined - That Sceptre drooped. The waves had rest - And Sceptre, Hand, and Dove were shrined - Within a glassy ocean's breast. - - His Will it was that placed her there! - He at whose word the tempests cease - Upon that Sceptre planted fair - That peace-bestowing type of Peace! - -{93} - -_Thronus Trinitatis._ - - -X. - - Each several Saint the Church reveres, - What is he but an altar whence - Some separate Virtue ministers - To God a separate frankincense? - - Each beyond each, not made of hands, - They rise, a ladder angel-trod: - Star-bright the last and loftiest stands-- - That altar is the Throne of God. - - Lost in the uncreated light - A Form all Human rests thereon: - His shade from that surpassing height - Beyond creation's verge is thrown. - - Him "Lord of lords, and King of kings," - The chorus of all worlds proclaim:-- - "He took from her," one angel sings - At intervals, "His Human frame." - -{94} - -_Cultus Sanctorum._ - - -XI. - - He seemed to linger with them yet: - But late ascended to the skies, - They saw--ah, how could they forget?-- - The form they loved, the hands, the eyes. - - From anchored boat--in lane or field-- - He taught; He blessed, and brake the bread; - The hungry filled; the afflicted healed; - And wept, ere yet he raised, the dead. - - But when, like some supreme of hills, - Whose feet shut out its summit's snow, - That, hid no longer, heavenward swells - As further from its base we go, - - Abroad His perfect Godhead shone, - Each hour more plainly kenned on high, - And clothed His Manhood with the sun, - And, cleansing, hurt the adoring eye; - -{95} - - Then fixed His Church a deepening gaze - Upon His Saints. With Him they sate, - And, burning in that Godhead's blaze, - They seemed that Manhood to dilate. - - His were they: of His likeness each - Had grace some fragment to present, - And nearer brought to mortal reach - Of Him some line or lineament. - - -{96} - -_Fest. S. S. Trinitatis._ - -XII. - - Fall back, all worlds, into the abyss, - That man may contemplate once more - That which He ever was Who is:-- - The Eternal Essence we adore. - - Angelic hierarchies! recede - Beyond extinct creation's shade! - What were ye at the first? Decreed:-- - Decreed, not fashioned; thought, not made! - - Like wind the untold Millenniums passed. - Sole-throned He sat; yet not alone: - Godhead in Godhead still was glassed;-- - The Spirit was breathed from Sire and Son. - - Prime Virgin, separate and sealed; - Nor less of social love the root; - Dimly in lowliest shapes revealed; - Entire in every Attribute;-- - -{97} - - Thou liv'st in all things, and around; - To Thee external is there nought; - Thou of the boundless art the bound; - And still Creation is Thy Thought. - - In vain, O God, our wings we spread; - So distant art Thou--yet so nigh. - Remains but this, when all is said, - For Thee to live; in Thee to die. - -{98} - -XIII. - - Where is the crocus now, that first, - When earth was dark and heaven was grey, - A prothalamion flash, up-burst? - Ah, then we deemed not of the May! - - The clear stream stagnates in its course; - Narcissus droops in pallid gloom; - Far off the hills of golden gorse - A dusk Saturnian face assume. - - The seeded dandelion dim - Casts loose its air-globe on the breeze; - Along the grass the swallows skim; - The cattle couch among the trees. - - Yet ever lordlier loveliness - Succeeds to that which slips our hold: - The thorn assumes her snowy dress; - Laburnum bowers their robes of gold. - - Down waves successive of the year - We drop; but drop once more to rise, - With ampler view, as on we steer, - Of lovelier lights and loftier skies. - - -{99} - - -_"Ad Nives."_ - - -XIV. - - Before the morn began to break - The bright One bent above that pair - Whose childless vows aspired to take - The mother of their Lord for heir. - - 'Twas August: even in midnight shade - The roofs were hot, and hot the street:-- - "Build me a fane," the vision said, - "Where first your eyes the snow shall meet." [Footnote 6] - - [Footnote 6: Santa Maria Maggiore, on - the Esquiline, at Rome.] - - With snow the Esquiline was strewn - At morn!--Fair Legend! who but thinks - Of thee, when first the breezes blown - From summer Alp to Alp he drinks? - - He stands: he hears the torrents dash: - Slowly the vapours break; and lo! - Through chasms of endless azure flash - The peaks of everlasting snow. - -{100} - - He stands; he listens; on his ear - Swells softly forth some virgin hymn: - The white procession windeth near, - With glimmering lights in sunshine dim. - - Mother of Purity and Peace! - They sing the Saviour's name and thine - Clothe them for ever with the fleece - Unspotted of thy Lamb Divine! - -{101} - -_Fest. Puritatis._ - - -XV. - - Far down the bird may sing of love; - The honey-bearing blossom blow: - But hail, ye hills that rise above - The limit of perpetual snow! - - O Alpine City, with thy walls - Of rock eterne and spires of ice, - Where torrent still to torrent calls, - And precipice to precipice;-- - - How like that holier City thou, - The heavenly Salem's earthly porch, - Which rears among the stars her brow, - And plants firm feet on earth--the Church! - - "Decaying, ne'er to be decayed," - Her woods, like thine, renew their youth: - Her streams, in rocky arms embayed, - Are clear as virtue, strong as truth. - -{102} - - At times the lake may burst its dam; - Black pine and rock the valley strew; - But o'er the ruin soon the lamb - Its flowery pasture crops anew. - - She, too, in regions near the sky - Up-piles her cloistered snows, and thence - Diffuses gales of purity - O'er fields of consecrated sense. - - On those still heights a love-light glows - The plains from them alone receive;-- - Not all the Lily! There thy Rose, - O Mary, triumphs, morn and eve! - -{103} - -XVI. - - Cloud-piercing Mountains! Chance and Change - More high than you their thrones advance. - Self-vanquished Nature's rockiest range - Gives way before them like the trance - - Of one that wakes. From morn to eve - Through fissured clefts her mists make way; - At Night's cold touch they freeze, and cleave - Her crags; and, with a Titan's sway, - - Flake off and peel the rotting rocks, - And heap the glacier tide below - With isles of sand and floating blocks, - As leaves on streams when tempests blow. - - Lo, thus the great decree all-just, - O Earth, thy mountains hear; and learn - From fire and frost its import--"dust - Thou art; and shalt to dust return." - - He only is Who ever was; - The All-measuring Mind; the Will Supreme. - Rocks, mountains, worlds, like bubbles pass: - God is; the things not God but seem. - - -{104} - - -_Foederis Arca._ - - -XVII. - - From end to end, O God, Thy Will - With swift yet ordered might doth reach: - Thy purposes their scope fulfil - In sequence, resting each on each. - - In Thee is nothing sudden; nought - From harmony and law that swerves: - The orbits of Thine act and thought - In soft succession wind their curves. - - O then with what a gradual care - Must thou have shaped that sacred shrine, - That Ark of grace, ordained to bear - The burthen of the Babe divine! - - How many a gift within her breast - Lay stored, for Him a couch to strew! - How many a virtue lined His nest! - How many a grace beside Him grew! - - Of love on love what sweet excess! - How deep a faith! a hope how high!-- - Mary! on earth of thee we guess; - But we shall see thee when we die! - -{105} - - -_Domus Aurea._ - -XVIII. - - She mused upon the Saints of old; - Their toils, their pains, she longed to share - Of Him she mused, the Child foretold; - To Him her hands she stretched in prayer. - - No moment passed without its crown; - And each new grace was used so well - It drew some tenfold talent down, - Some miracle on miracle. - - O golden House! O boundless store - Of wealth by heavenly commerce won! - When God Himself could give no more, - He gave thee all; He gave His Son! - - Blessed the Mother of her Lord! - And yet for this more blessed still, - Because she heard and kept His Word-- - High servant of His sovereign Will! - - -{106} - -_Respexit Humilitatem._ - - -XIX - - Not all thy purity, although - The whitest moon that ever lit - The peaks of Lebanonian snow - Shone dusk and dim compared with it;-- - - Not that great love of thine, whose beams - Transcended in their virtuous heat - Those suns which melt the ice-bound streams, - And make earth's pulses newly beat:-- - - It was not these that from the sky - Drew down to thee the Eternal Word: - He looked on thy humility; - He knew thee, "Handmaid of thy Lord." - - Let no one claim with thee a part; - Let no one, Mary, name thy name, - While, aping God, upon his heart - Pride sits, a demon robed in flame. - - Proud Vices, die! Where Sin has place - Be Sin's familiar self-disgust. - Proud Virtues, doubly die; that Grace - At last may burgeon from your dust. - - -{107} - - -_Respexit Humilitatem._ - - -XX. - - Supreme among the things create - Omnipotence revealed below, - More swift than thought, more strong than fate, - Such, such, Humility, art thou! - - All strength beside is weakness. Might - Belongs to God: and they alone, - Self-emptied souls and seeming-slight, - Are filled with God and share his throne. - - O Mary! strong wert thou and meek; - Thy meekness gave thee strength divine: - Thyself in nothing didst thou seek; - Therefore thy Maker made Him thine. - - Through Pride our parents disobeyed; - Rebellious Sense avenged the crime: - The soul, the body's captive made, - Became the branded thrall of time. - -{108} - - With barrenness the earth was cursed; - Inviolate she brought forth no more - Her fruits, nor freely as at first:-- - Thou cam'st, her Eden to restore! - - Low breathes the wind upon the string; - The harp, responsive, sounds in turn: - Thus o'er thy Soul the Spirit's wing - Creative passed; and Christ was born. - -{109} - - -_"Sine Labe originali Concepta."_ - - -XXI. - - Met in a point [Footnote 7] the circles twain - Of temporal and eternal things - Embrace, close linked. Redemption's chain - Drops thence to earth its myriad rings. - - [Footnote 7: The Incarnation.] - - In either circle, from of old, - That point of meeting stood decreed;-- - Twin mysteries cast in one deep mould, - "The Woman," and "the Woman's Seed." - - Mary, long ages ere thy birth - Resplendent with Salvation's Sign, - In thee a stainless hand the earth - Put forth, to meet the Hand Divine! - - First trophy of all-conquering Grace, - First victory of that Blood all pure, - Of man's once fair but fallen race - Thou stood'st, the monument secure. - - The Word made Flesh! the Way! the Door! - The link that dust with Godhead blends! - Through Him the worlds their God adore:-- - Through thee that God to man descends. - -{110} - -_"Sine Labe originali Concepta."_ - - -XXII. - - A soul-like sound, subdued yet strong, - A whispered music, mystery-rife, - A sound like Eden airs among - The branches of the Tree of Life-- - - At first no more than this; at last - The voice of every land and clime, - It swept o'er Earth, a clarion blast: - Earth heard, and shook with joy sublime. - - Mary! thy triumph was her own. - In thee she saw her prime restored: - She saw ascend a spotless Throne - For Him, her Saviour, and her Lord. - - The Church had spoken. She that dwells - Sun-clad with beatific light, - From Truth's unvanquished citadels, - From Sion's Apostolic height, - - Had stretched her sceptred hands, and pressed - The seal of Faith, defined and known, - Upon that Truth till then confessed - By Love's instinctive sense alone. - -{111} - -XXIII. - - Brow-bound with myrtle and with gold, - Spring, sacred now from blasts and blights, - Lifts in a firm, untrembling hold - Her chalice of fulfilled delights. - - Confirmed around her queenly lip - The smile late wavering, on she moves; - And seems through deepening tides to step - Of steadier joys and larger loves. - - The stony Ash itself relents, - Into the blue embrace of May - Sinking, like old impenitents - Heart-touched at last; and, far away, - - The long wave yearns along the coast - With sob suppressed, like that which thrills - (While o'er the altar mounts the Host) - Some chapel on the Irish hills. - - -{112} - -_Corpus Christi._ - - -XXIV. - - Rejoice, O Mary! and be glad, - Thou Church triumphant here below! - He cometh, in meekest emblems clad; - Himself he cometh to bestow! - - That body which thou gav'st, O Earth, - He giveth back--that Flesh, that Blood; - Born of the Altar's mystic birth; - At once thy Worship and thy Food. - - He who of old on Calvary bled - On all thine altars lies to-day, - A bloodless Sacrifice, but dread; - The Lamb in heaven adored for aye. - - His Godhead on the Cross He veiled; - His Manhood here He veileth too: - But Faith has eagle eyes unsealed; - And Love to Him she loves is true. - -{113} - - "I will not leave you orphans. Lo! - While lasts the world with you am I." - Saviour! we see Thee not; but know, - With burning hearts, that Thou art nigh! - - He comes! Blue Heaven, thine incense breathe - O'er all the consecrated sod; - And thou, O Earth, with flowers enwreathe - The steps of thine advancing God! - - -{114} - -_Corpus Christi._ - - -XXV. - - What music swells on every gale? - What heavenly Herald rideth past? - Vale sings to vale, "He comes; all hail!" - Sea sighs to sea, "He comes at last." - - The Earth bursts forth in choral song; - Aloft her "Lauda Sion" soars; - Her myrtle boughs at once are flung - Before a thousand Minster doors. - - Far on the white processions wind - Through wood and plain and street and court - The kings and prelates pace behind - The King of kings in seemly sort. - - The incense floats on Grecian air; - Old Carmel echoes back the chant; - In every breeze the torches flare - That curls the waves of the Levant. - - On Ramah's plain--in Bethlehem's bound-- - Is heard to-day a gladsome voice: - "Rejoice," it cries, "the lost is found! - With Mary's joy, O Earth, rejoice!" - -{115} - -XXVI. - - Pleasant the swarm about the bough; - The meadow-whisper round the woods; - And for their coolness pleasant now - The murmur of the falling floods. - - Pleasant beneath the thorn to lie, - And let a summer fancy loose; - To hear the cuckoo's double cry; - To make the noon-tide sloth's excuse. - - Panting, but pleased, the cattle stand - Knee-deep in water-weed and sedge, - And scarcely crop the greener band - Of osiers round the river's edge. - - But hark! Far off the south wind sweeps - The golden-foliaged groves among, - Renewed or lulled, with rests and leaps-- - Ah! how it makes the spirit long - - To drop its earthly weight, and drift - Like yon white cloud, on pinions free, - Beyond that mountain's purple rift, - And o'er that scintillating sea! - -{116} - -XXVII. - - Sing on, wide winds, your anthems vast! - The ear is richer than the eye: - Upon the eye no shape can cast - Such impress of Infinity. - - And thou, my soul, thy wings of might - Put forth:--thou too, one day shalt soar, - And, onward borne in heavenward flight, - The starry universe explore; - - Breasting that breeze which waves the bowers - Of Heaven's bright forest never mute, - Whereof perchance this earth of ours - Is but the feeblest forest-fruit. - - "The Spirit bloweth where He wills"-- - Effluence of that Life Divine - Which wakes the Universe, and stills, - In Thy strong refluence make us Thine! - -{117} - -_Coeli enarrant._ - - -XXVIII. - - Sole Maker of the Worlds! They lay - A barren blank, a void, a nought, - Beyond the ken of solar ray - Or reach of archangelic thought. - - Thou spak'st; and they were made! Forth sprang - From every region of the abyss, - Whose deeps, fire-clov'n, with anthems rang, - The spheres new-born and numberless. - - Thou spak'st:--upon the winds were found - The astonished Eagles. Awed and hushed - Subsiding seas revered their bound; - And the strong forests upward rushed. - - Before the Vision angels fell, - As though the face of God they saw; - And all the panting miracle - Found rest within the arms of Law. - -{118} - - Perfect, O God, Thy primal plan-- - That scheme frost-bound by Adam's sin: - Create, within the heart of Man, - Worlds meet for Thee; and dwell therein. - - From Thy bright realm of Sense and Nature, - Which flowers enwreathe and stars begem, - Shape Thou Thy Church; the crowned Creature; - The Bride; the New Jerusalem! - - -{119} - - -_Caro factus est._ - - -XXIX. - - When from beneath the Almighty Hand - The suns and systems rushed abroad, - Like coursers which have burst their band, - Or torrents when the ice is thawed; - - When round in luminous orbits flung - The great stars gloried in their might; - Still, still, a bridgeless gulf there hung - 'Twixt Finite things and Infinite. - - That crown of light creation wore - Was edged with vast unmeasured black; - And all of natural good she bore - Confessed her supernatural lack. - - For what is Nature at the best? - An arch suspended in its spring; - An altar-step without a priest; - A throne whereon there sits no king. - -{120} - - As one stone-blind that fronts the morn, - The world before her Maker stood, - Uplifting suppliant hands forlorn-- - God's creature, yet how far from God! - - He came. That world His priestly robe; - The Kingly Pontiff raised on high - The worship of the starry globe:-- - The gulf was bridged, and God was nigh. - -{121} - -XXX. - - A woman "clothed with the sun," [Footnote 8] - Yet fleeing from the Dragon's rage!-- - The strife in Eden-bowers begun - Swells upward to the latest age. - - [Footnote 8: Rev. xii. 1.] - - That woman's Son is throned on high; - The angelic hosts before Him bend: - The sceptre of His empery - Subdues the worlds from end to end. - - Yet still the sword goes through her heart, - For still on earth His Church survives. - In her that woman holds a part: - In her she suffers, wakes, and strives. - - Around her head the stars are set; - A dying moon beneath her wanes: - But he that letteth still must let: - The Power accurst awhile remains. - - Break up, strong Earth, thy stony floors, - And snatch to penal caverns dun - That Dragon from the pit that wars - Against the woman and her Son! - -{122} - -XXXI. - - No ray of all their silken sheen - The leaves first fledged have lost as yet - Unfaded, near the advancing queen - Of flowers, abides the violet. - - The rose succeeds--her month is come:-- - The flower with sacred passion red: - She sings the praise of martyrdom, - And Him for whom His martyrs bled. - - The perfect work of May is done: - Hard by a new perfection waits:-- - The twain, a sister and a nun, - A moment parley at the grates. - - The whiter Spirit turns in peace - To hide her in the cloistral shade:-- - 'Tis time that you should also cease, - Slight carols in her honour made. - -{123} - -EPILOGUE. - -{124} - -{125} - -_Epilogue_ - - - Regent of Change, thou waning Moon, - Whom they, the sons of night, adore, - Her feet are on thee! Late or soon - Heap up upon the expectant shore - - The tides of Man's Intelligence; - Or backward to the blackening deep - Remit them: Knowledge won from Sense - But sleeps to wake, and wakes to sleep. - - Where are the hands that reared on high - Heaven-threat'ning Babel? where the might - Of them, that giant progeny, - The Deluge dealt with? Lost in night. - - The child who knows his creed doth stretch - A sceptred hand o'er Space, and hold - The end of all those threads that catch - In wisdom's net the starry fold. - - The Sabbath comes: the work-days six - Of Time go by; meantime the key, - O salutary crucifix, - Of all the worlds, we clasp in thee. - -{126} - - Truth deeplier felt by none than him [Footnote 9] - Who at the Alban mountain's foot, - Wandering no more in shadows dim, - Lay down, a lamb-like offering mute. - - [Footnote 9: Robert Isaak Wilberforce.] - - His mighty lore found rest at last - In Faith, and woke in God. 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