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Donnelly</p> -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. 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 <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a>. If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> - -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: Prince Ragnal and other holiday verses</p> -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Eleanor C. Donnelly</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: November 18, 2022 [eBook #69379]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Krista Zaleski, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PRINCE RAGNAL AND OTHER HOLIDAY VERSES ***</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</span></p> - - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</span></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter illowp90" id="001" style="max-width: 62.5em;"> - <img class="w90" src="images/001.png" alt=""> - <div class="caption"> - -<i>Here is the well-spring of those sparkling, saving waters—</i><br> -<i>Here, in the heart of Mary’s Blessed Boy!</i><br> - - -<p class="right"> -(<i>See <a href="#Page_33">page 33</a>.</i>)<br> -</p> -</div> -</div> - - - - - - -<div class="chapter"> -<h1><span class="center fancy big">Prince Ragnal</span><br> -<span class="center"><b>AND OTHER HOLIDAY VERSES</b></span></h1> -</div> - -<div class="img_drop" id="border-right" style="max-width: 30em;"> - <img class="border w100" src="images/border-right.png" alt=""> -</div> - -<div class="r_border"> - - -<p class="center"> BY </p> -<p class="center big"> ELEANOR C. DONNELLY</p> - - - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i_title-x" style="max-width: 12.8125em;"> - <img class="w50" src="images/i_title-x.png" alt=""> -</div> - -<p class="center"> PHILADELPHIA</p> - -<p class="center big"> <span class="smcap">H. L. Kilner & Co.</span></p> - -<p class="center"> PUBLISHERS</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pdrop2"> </p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</span></p> -<p class="nobreak p2 center med" id="Copyright_1898_by_Eleanor_C_Donnelly">Copyright, 1898, by <span class="smcap">Eleanor C. Donnelly</span>.</p> -</div> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p class="center p6"> -TO</p> -<br> -<p class="center">MY REVERED FRIEND OF MANY YEARS,</p> -<br> -<p class="center fancy big">Rev. Matthew Russell, S. J.,</p> -<br> -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Editor of the “Irish Monthly,” Dublin, Ireland</span>,</p> -<br> -<p class="center">THIS LITTLE BOOK IS DEDICATED</p> -<br> -<p class="center">BY HIS SPECIAL PERMISSION.<br> -</p> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</span></p> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="FINDING_LIST">FINDING LIST</h2> -</div> - - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="verse-break" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - - -<div class="center"> - -<table class="autotable"> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"><a href="#Prince_Ragnal">Prince Ragnal.</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"><a href="#Christmas_Carol">Christmas Carol.</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"><a href="#At_Dame_Noels">At Dame Noël’s.</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"><a href="#A_Murillo">A Murillo.</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"><a href="#The_Stable_of_Bethlehem">The Stable of Bethlehem.</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"><a href="#The_Three_Masses_on_Christmas_Day">The Three Masses on Christmas Day.</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"><a href="#The_God-Man">The God-Man.</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"><a href="#Bethlehems_Queen">Bethlehem’s Queen.</a></td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> - - - -<span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> -<div class="illo_drop" style="max-width: 30em;"> - <img class="border w100" src="images/border-left.png" alt=""> -</div> -<p class="pdrop"> </p> - -<div class="poetry-container l_border"> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Prince_Ragnal">Prince Ragnal.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp10" id="i_009" style="max-width: 11.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i_009.png" alt=""> -</div> - -<p class="center"><b>A Christmas Legend of Early Christian Ireland.</b></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp10" id="i_009_2" style="max-width: 11.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i_009.png" alt=""> -</div> - -<h3 class="nobreak" id="THE_EVE">THE EVE.</h3> - - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <img class="illo_drop" style="margin-left: -2.7em;" - alt="W" - src="images/i_037.png"> - <div class="verse indent2 drop-cap">White and chill from the wintry skies,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The starlight falls upon ancient Eire:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The wind makes moan thro’ the leafless trees</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Of Devenish Isle, like a soul in fear,—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Deep in the heart of its snowy woods,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Fanning a peat-flame, lone and drear.</div> - </div> - - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">The ruined hut where that turf-fire glows</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Hath never a roof of thatch or stone,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">But bow and spear on the rude walls hang,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And a bed of skins on the floor is strewn,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Where, close to the embers, stern and still,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Ragnal the leper sits alone.</div> - </div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Ragnal of Errigal, prince of doom,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">His face, a death-mask of despair;—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The foul disorder’s loathly scales</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Lacquer his skin with their hideous glair:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Dulling the blue of his brave young eye,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Dimming the gold of his tangled hair.</div> - </div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Bowed like a churl of three-score ten,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">His peakéd chin in his wasted hands,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He watches the flames with a sluggish eye,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Sparkle and glow in their fiery dance;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Till, deep in the embers, pictured, lie</div> - <div class="verse indent4">His life’s lost hopes—its dead romance.</div> - </div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">A royal castle beside the sea,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">On breezy cliffs, exultant, set:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A Prince and Princess, young and fair,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Pacing the grassy parapet,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The golden fringe of his long, bright hair</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Sweeping the maiden’s locks of jet.</div> - </div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Thro’ perfum’d air, replete with peace,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The swallows skim the blue waves’ flow:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The lovely Dympna’s hand, at rest</div> - <div class="verse indent4">On her lover’s arm (a thing of snow)—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Thrills, as he bends his head, and breathes</div> - <div class="verse indent4">In her blushing ear, a whisper low.</div> - </div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">She gathers the fleece of her floating veil</div> - <div class="verse indent4">From the nodding shade of his raven plume,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">As, gravely pleading, he bends again</div> - <div class="verse indent4">To hear those bright lips speak his doom.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">—Why does she start and lift her head?</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Why are her cheeks devoid of bloom?</div> - </div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">He sees the flash of her wide, dark eye,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">He hears her clear voice rise and fall:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“Sooner than sell my faith in Christ,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">My life I’d yield—my love—my all!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Content my bridal vows should prove</div> - <div class="verse indent4">A martyr’s grave and a virgin’s pall!”</div> - </div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Then, in the flames, his other self</div> - <div class="verse indent4">He sees, erect in scorn and pride:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“Sooner would I a leper be,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Far from the world to crouch and hide,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Than bend to a Christian priest mine knee,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Or take to mine arms a Christian bride!”</div> - </div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">The royal blood leaps in her face,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Her voice rings out its golden knell:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“O Christ! incline Thy pitying grace,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And pardon this poor infidel!”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Then, with averted, shuddering gaze,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">“Unhappy Ragnal! fare thee well!”</div> - </div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">A sudden darkness shuts her in ...</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The flutter of her snowy gown—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The sunlit towers—the sparkling waves</div> - <div class="verse indent4">In pallid embers, crumble down;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">As Ragnal by the fire sits,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">A leprous Prince without a crown!</div> - </div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">“O lily, nurtured by the sea!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Sweet Dympna, long-lost, promised bride!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Thine unknown Christ”—(he cries aloud):</div> - <div class="verse indent4">“This night hath triumph’d o’er my pride!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Forgive me!”—Lo! a gust of song</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Fills all the wintry world outside!</div> - </div> -</div> - - -</div> - - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<h3 class="nobreak" id="THE_DAWN">THE DAWN.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">A thrilling, heavenly harmony</div> - <div class="verse indent4">From silvern harps and lutes divine:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The Leper, prostrate on his face,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Drinks in the glorious draught like wine;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Then, rising, reels like drunken wight,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Into the starlight’s wondrous shine.</div> - </div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">For strange, unearthly lustres fill</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The frosty air. To Ragnal blown,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Across Lough Erne, there comes the breath</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Of sweetest blossoms ever grown;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Yet, right or left, above, below,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">No living thing or shape is shown.</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">All wordless, o’er the sparkling Lough,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The music steals again—but hark!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“<i>Gloria in excelsis!</i>” sings</div> - <div class="verse indent4">A voice, up-soaring like a lark;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">While: “<i>Et in terra pax!</i>” (strange words!)</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Drop down to Ragnal thro’ the dark.</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">His breast heaves with a mighty fear,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The strong man trembles like a reed:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The while the minstrels float before,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">(Tho’ ulcer’d feet and ankles bleed),</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Straight onward through the shining wood,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">He needs must follow where they lead;</div> - </div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">And walks, and walks, and walks, and walks,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">His bare feet buried in the snow;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">While flaming eyes of savage beasts</div> - <div class="verse indent4">From bog and thicket, glare and glow.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He sees the stars slide down the east,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">He hears the cocks begin to crow.</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Yet walks, and walks, and walks, and walks,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Till ev’ry nerve and sinew aches,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And sweat and blood and loathly scales</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Mark ev’ry painful step he takes—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">When, suddenly, the rapturous sound</div> - <div class="verse indent4">That lured him on—his path forsakes!</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">And with his burning forehead bared,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The hoar-frost on his yellow locks,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The Leper finds himself before</div> - <div class="verse indent4">An open cave, wherein an ox</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And ass are stalled—dumb, placid brutes,—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Their manger rooted in the rocks.</div> - </div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">And in the midst—O Vision strange!—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">A Woman glorious as the moon,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Upon whose breast, a radiant Child</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Lies, like a rosebud blown in June,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">His eyes (twin-lamps of Paradise!)</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Making the night a brilliant noon.</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">They look on Ragnal sweet, yet sad,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And Ragnal bends his aching knee;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He stretches forth his wasted arms,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And cries: “Eternal praise to Thee!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O Blessed Christ! Thine hour is come—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Complete the work begun in me!”</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">And then, he swoons—how long—how short</div> - <div class="verse indent4">A space, he knows not—till his eyes</div> - <div class="verse indent2">He, languid, opens to the dawn,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Faint-blushing in the eastern skies;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And sees the cavern full of shapes,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And blazing with a glad surprise!</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span></p> -</div></div> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<h3 class="nobreak" id="THE_PERFECT_DAY">THE PERFECT DAY.</h3> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">An altar cloth’d with pure samite,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Adorned with gold and precious stones—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A Christian priest in vestments white</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Baptizing many little ones;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And all the people on their knees</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Singing in full, melodious tones!—</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Whose hand on Ragnal’s shoulder lies?</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Whose sweet voice murmurs in his ear?</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“For such as <i>thou</i>, the Christ was born;</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Arise, Prince Ragnal, and draw near!”</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A veiléd woman leads him down</div> - <div class="verse indent4">To where the altar-lights shine clear.</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">The Hidden Presence strong and sweet</div> - <div class="verse indent4">His erring son would closer draw.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In the warm glory of the shrine,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">His icy blood begins to thaw:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Yet Ragnal dare not lift his eyes—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">He trembles with delicious awe.</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span></p> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">What time the children yield him place,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">(Without a look or sign of dread),</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Kneeling before the agéd priest,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The sacred words are softly said;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And with a thrill of joy, he feels</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The saving waters on his head.</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">O miracle of purest faith!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The people shout and clap their hands—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Like some foul mantle, earthward, cast,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Down drop the Leper’s loathsome bands!—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Ragnal, the Golden-hair’d, once more,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">In manly beauty, perfect, stands!</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">While, clear and strong to Heaven’s high court,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Goes up the glorious Christmas hymn—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The shrouded woman at his side</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Flings back her veil from eyes that swim</div> - <div class="verse indent2">With happy tears—and <span class="smcap">Dympna’s</span> face</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Shines star-like, from the shadows dim!</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span></p> - - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Forgiven the past—forgot the pains</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Which made <i>that</i> face his bitterest dream;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A trusting smile is on its lips,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Its eyes with glad affection beam,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">While, down the Prince’s waving beard,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The grateful tears, unbidden, stream.</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">The priest hath joined their willing hands;</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The day grows bright—the wind blows free—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">As thro’ the woods, they go to seek</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Their sunlit castle by the sea.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O Ragnal of the Golden Hair!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The Lord hath gracious dealt with thee!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - - - -<div class="figcenter illowp53" id="i_017" style="max-width: 82.75em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i_017.png" alt=""> - <div class="caption"> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse indent2"><i>And in the midst—O Vision strange!—</i></div> -<div class="verse indent4"><i>A Woman glorious as the moon,</i></div> -<div class="verse indent2"><i>Upon whose breast, a radiant Child</i></div> -<div class="verse indent4"><i>Lies, like a rosebud blown in June.</i></div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> -<p class="right"> -(<i>See <a href="#Page_16">page 16</a>.</i>)<br> -</p> -</div> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> -<div class="illo_drop" style="max-width: 30em;"> - <img class="border w100" src="images/border-left.png" alt=""> -</div> -<p class="pdrop"> </p> -<div class="poetry-container l_border"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Christmas_Carol">Christmas Carol.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="center">I.</p> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <img - class="illo_drop" style="margin-left: -2.3em;" - alt="O" - src="images/i_022.png"> - <div class="verse indent2 drop-cap">O holy Night! O starry Night,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">That ushers in Salvation’s morn!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O blessed Eve of rare delight,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Whereon the Christ was born!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Thine angels flood the hills with song,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And rouse the shepherds from their sleep;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">While past’ral pipes the lay prolong,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Around the Stable door, they throng</div> - <div class="verse indent4">With votive lambs and sheep.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent12">Sing <i>Gloria</i>, sing <i>Gloria</i></div> - <div class="verse indent12"><i>In excelsis Deo!</i></div> - </div> - -<p class="center">II.</p> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">O solemn Night! O lustrous Night,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">That fills the earth with brightest Day!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The Wise Men come in robes of white</div> - <div class="verse indent4">From kingdoms far away.</div> - </div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span></p> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">What time their weary journey ends,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">They haste to worship Judah’s King;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In jewel’d zones and bazubends</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Behold the three Chaldean friends,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Gold, myrrh, and incense bring!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent12">Sing <i>Gloria</i>, sing <i>Gloria</i></div> - <div class="verse indent12"><i>In excelsis Deo!</i></div> - </div> - -<p class="center">III.</p> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">O radiant Night! O Night of nights!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Thy bells ring sweet from Paradise;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Thine orient Star, eternal, lights</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The Crib where Jesus lies!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Wealth of the poor, the mourner’s joy,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The sinner’s shield, the captive’s hope,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">This Babe—the Virgin’s sinless Boy—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Shall sin and hell and death destroy,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And heaven’s portals ope!</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent12">Sing <i>Gloria</i>, sing <i>Gloria</i></div> - <div class="verse indent12"><i>In excelsis Deo!</i></div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp60" id="i_024" style="max-width: 93em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i_024.png" alt=""> - <div class="caption"><p class="center"> -<i>This Babe—the Virgin’s sinless Boy—</i><br> -<i>Shall sin and hell and death destroy,</i><br> -<i>And heaven’s portals ope!</i><br> -</p> - -<p class="right"> -(<i>See <a href="#Page_25">page 25</a>.</i>)<br> -</p> -</div></div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="illo_drop" style="max-width: 30em;"> - <img class="border w100" src="images/border-left.png" alt=""> -</div> -<p class="pdrop"> </p> -<div class="poetry-container l_border"> - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span></p> - - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="At_Dame_Noels">At Dame Noël’s.</h2> -</div> - -<p class="center">AN OLD-WORLD TRADITION.</p> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <img - class="illo_drop" style="margin-left: -1.7em;" - alt="T" - src="images/i_026.png"> - <div class="verse indent2 drop-cap">The clock strikes Twelve! ’Tis Christmas Eve</div> - <div class="verse indent4">At old Dame Noël’s farm;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Beyond the house, with holly wreathed,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The barn in mistletoe is sheathed.</div> - <div class="verse indent4">(God save us from all harm!)</div> - </div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">The red cock to the manger springs,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And shrills its Christmas prayer;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Three times, it flaps its shining wings,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Then, “<i>Christus—natus—est!</i>”—it sings.</div> - <div class="verse indent4">—The ox roars “<i>Ubi?</i>—Where?”</div> - </div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">But, soft thro’ swaths of sun-dried grass,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">It hears the lamb below,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">From out the shimmering, scented mass,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Bleat: “<i>Beth’lem! Beth’lem!</i>”—Brays the ass:</div> - <div class="verse indent4">“<i>Eamus!</i>—Let us go!”</div> - </div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">And ’round about the hive (whose zone</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Shall summer sweets embalm),</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The bees go floating as they drone,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Go floating, as they thus intone</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Their honeyed, midnight psalm:</div> - </div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">“<i>Let all Creation praise the Lord,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent4"><i>Who comes to men this Christmas morn:</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>The Son of God, th’ Incarnate Word,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent4"><i>In Bethlehem of Mary born!</i></div> - </div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">“<i>Good ox, good ass, your brothers wait</i></div> - <div class="verse indent4"><i>This hour beside His Crib—A sign</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>There, too, is thine, meek lamb; thy Mate</i></div> - <div class="verse indent4"><i>Is Blessed Mary’s Lamb divine!</i></div> - </div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">“<i>And, from thy seed, bold Chanticleer!</i></div> - <div class="verse indent4"><i>Shall spring that bird of Passiontide,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Whose voice shall thrice to Peter’s ear</i></div> - <div class="verse indent4"><i>Proclaim: ‘Thou hast thy Lord denied!’</i></div> - </div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">“<i>Ah! tho’ we little bees may ne’er</i></div> - <div class="verse indent4"><i>Find in the Holy Babe, our part;</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Nor, with our sweetest honey, dare</i></div> - <div class="verse indent4"><i>To heal His tender, bleeding heart;</i></div> - </div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">“<i>Tho’ none of us may share Man’s grace,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent4"><i>Nor claim his Saviour newly-born,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent2"><i>Yet do we still His mercies praise,</i></div> - <div class="verse indent4"><i>And bless His birth, this Christmas morn!</i>”</div> - </div> - -<hr class="tb"> - - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Thus do the bonny creatures strive</div> - <div class="verse indent4">To hail Love’s mystery;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In comely shapes, alert, alive,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Thus do they greet, in stall and hive,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Our Lord’s Nativity!</div> - </div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Thus, do the Soulless keep the feast</div> - <div class="verse indent4">At old Dame Noël’s farm;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The Christmas star shines in the east,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Soft chimes the bell—swift glides the priest—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">God save us from all harm!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - - -<div class="illo_drop" style="max-width: 30em;"> - <img class="border w100" src="images/border-left.png" alt=""> -</div> -<p class="pdrop"> </p> -<div class="poetry-container l_border"> - - - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="A_Murillo">A Murillo.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <img - class="illo_drop" style="margin-left: -1.7em;" - alt="T" - src="images/i_026.png"> - <div class="verse indent2 drop-cap">The lovely Christ-Child, like a lily, lies</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Within His Maiden Mother’s pure embrace—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The azure depths of her adoring eyes,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The faithful mirrors of His glorious face!</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">The while upon her bosom, warm and white,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">She shelters Him, with love and tender awe,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">From the bleak darkness of the winter night,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">From the rough manger and the bristling straw,</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">The shepherds at the dazzling Vision stare;</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The gentle beasts, at Joseph’s touch, bow down;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And angel choirs in vibrant tones declare</div> - <div class="verse indent4">That Christ is born a babe in David’s town!</div> - </div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">O Babyhood, the harbinger of hope</div> - <div class="verse indent4">To every babe enthroned on woman’s breast!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O Motherhood, within whose gracious scope</div> - <div class="verse indent4">All lesser motherhood is shrined and blessed!</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">No sceptred Cæsar can dispute <i>your</i> sway—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Angels or men your golden mission claim—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">For yours is Christ—to-day and yesterday,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And thro’ the eternal ages, still the same!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp30" id="i_030" style="max-width: 10em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i_030.png" alt=""> -</div> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="The_Stable_of_Bethlehem">The Stable of Bethlehem.</h2> -</div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <img - class="illo_drop" style="margin-left: -1.7em;" - alt="T" - src="images/i_026.png"> - <div class="verse indent2 drop-cap">There is no ante-chamber in this royal palace,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">There are no waiting-rooms of haughty state:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">No chamberlain austere, no courtiers puff’d with malice,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">To shut us out from where the King doth wait—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The new-born King, unscepter’d and uncrown’d,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">In swaddling-bands of lowly linen bound.</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Open and wide to all, are these old palace-portals—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The very beasts have found their way therein.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Amid the thronging Angels, would ye seek for mortals?</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Behold the Virgin without stain of sin,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And Joseph, her chaste spouse!—Thrice blesséd pair!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">They kneel before the Babe in wordless prayer!</div> - </div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">The sweetest, fairest Babe e’er seen! Thro’ ruined rafters,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The happy stars shine in upon His stall;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">The keen wind, blowing from the fields and mountain-pastures,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Deepens the rose-tint of His visage small,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And bids His hands, on Mary’s bosom, glow</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Like soft, pink blossoms on a drift of snow.</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Kneel and adore Him! Bring your hearts, as stainless lilies,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">To cast before His darling, dimpled feet!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Soon shall the shepherds from the dusky hills and valleys,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">In simple faith, around His manger meet;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And stately Kings, on wondrous quest intent,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Shall bring their gifts from out the Orient.</div> - </div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">O Love, so free, so royal, yet so condescending—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">So unpretentious in Thy majesty!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">As Thy beginning, even so shall be Thine ending</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Upon the open heights of Calvary!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A fountain, free to all beneath God’s heaven,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Wherein all sinners may be cleansed and shriven!</div> - </div> -<div class="figcenter illowp30" style="max-width: 3.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Here is the well-spring of those sparkling, saving waters—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Here, in the heart of Mary’s Blessed Boy!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">From out the Saviour’s fountains, O earth’s sons and daughters,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Ye shall draw graces with exceeding joy;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And, with the Christmas Angels, rapturous, sing:</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Glory and homage to the new-born King!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="illo_drop" style="max-width: 30em;"> - <img class="border w100" src="images/border-left.png" alt=""> -</div> -<p class="pdrop"> </p> -<div class="poetry-container l_border"> - - - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="The_Three_Masses_on_Christmas_Day">The Three Masses on Christmas Day.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="center">I.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“<i>The Lord hath said to me: Thou art my Son, this day have I -begotten thee.</i>”—Ps. ii, 7.</p> -</div> -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <img - class="illo_drop" style="margin-left: -2.3em;" - alt="D" - src="images/i_034.png"> - <div class="verse indent2 drop-cap">Deep in the bosom of the Father lies</div> - <div class="verse indent4">His co-eternal Word—the Infinite,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Whose generation’s everlasting light</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Illumes the unborn ages.... Lift your eyes,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And contemplate that Home in Paradise,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">That first eternal Dwelling of the Word!—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Before the angels were,—before the skies</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Blush’d over Eden, or the waters stirred</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Under the Spirit’s strong, creative breath,—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Uttered the Father in His bosom blest</div> - <div class="verse indent2">This glorious Word.... What matter change or death?</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Amid the Godhead’s central fires expressed,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Life lives in Love.—O men of vision dim,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Here, at His altars, kneel, and worship Him!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</span></p> - -<p class="center">II.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“<i>And they came with haste, and they found Mary and Joseph, -and the Infant lying in a manger.</i>”—Luke ii, 16.</p> -</div> -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Tho’ midnight shadows wrap Him in their pall,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The stars upon His rosy sweetness shine;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">From Mary’s bosom to the cattle-stall,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">He passes in His baby grace divine!</div> - <div class="verse indent4"><i>Venite adoremus.</i> In this shrine,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Our God appears, our Saviour, and our All!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Before the Word made Flesh, adoring, fall,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And praise the Everlasting’s blest design.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Far, o’er the hills, the angel-chorus rings;</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The Shepherds, thro’ the dusk, are drawing nigh;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">St. Joseph’s lantern glows.... The Eastern Kings</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Stand out, like giants, ’gainst the bright’ning sky.</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“<i>Glory to God!</i>”—(the swelling strains increase)</div> - <div class="verse indent2">“<i>And, on the earth, to men of good-will—peace!</i>”</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</span></p> - -<p class="center">III.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“<i>A child is born to us, and a Son is given to us, and the -government is upon his shoulders; and his name shall be called -the Angel of great Council.</i>”—Isaias ix.</p> -</div> -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Within the Bethlehem of these poor hearts,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">The manger of our souls, O Prince of men!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Come, in Thy pity, and be born again!—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Ere yet the golden Christmas-tide departs,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Love, with its thousand sweet and tender arts,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Shall emulate the Shepherds’ glowing zeal,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Or, like the Magi from the Orient marts,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Shall gold, and myrrh, and frankincense reveal.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">O Babe, so rich in Thy great poverty,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Give us Detachment’s grand, divorcing grace!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O Babe, sublime in Thy humility,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Grant us, in Thee, all pride to self-abase!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">O suff’ring Babe, so blissful in Thy woe,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A self-denying joy, on us, bestow!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -</div> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="The_God-Man">The God-Man.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <img - class="illo_drop" style="margin-left: -2.7em;" - alt="W" - src="images/i_037.png"> - <div class="verse indent2 drop-cap">“Would I might be as God!” the first man cried,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">When, with forbidden fruits, Sin’s reign began.—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Lo! to repair the ruin wrought by Pride,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Christ, in the manger, we behold as Man!</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</span></p> -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Bethlehems_Queen">Bethlehem’s Queen.</h2> -</div> - - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“<i>And going into the house, they found the Child with Mary, -his Mother.</i>”—Matt. iii, 11.</p> -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <img - class="illo_drop" style="margin-left: -2.5em;" - alt="O" - src="images/i_022.png"> - <div class="verse indent2 drop-cap">O what would this life be without our sweet Mother?</div> - <div class="verse indent4">—A desert divested of well-springs and trees,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">A land without music, light, fragrance, or flowers,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">A black, sultry night, without moonlight or breeze!</div> - </div> -</div> - - -<div class="figcenter illowp10" style="max-width: 6.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">No solace for souls in their struggles with Satan,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">No hope for the sinner engulf’d in despair,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">No light for the saint in his doubts and temptations,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">No stronghold of peace in a world full of care;</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter illowp10" style="max-width: 6.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Dear <i>Cause of our joy!</i> bearing Bliss in thy bosom,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Clear <i>Mirror of justice!</i> resplendent with light,</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Rare <i>Mystical Rose!</i> in thy glory a-blossom,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Fair <i>Star of the morning!</i> dispelling our night,—</div> - </div> -</div> - - -<div class="figcenter illowp10" style="max-width: 6.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">Tho’ all the foul fiends of the regions infernal</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Assail the sad spirit with clamorous din;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Tho’ earth and the earthy obscure the Eternal,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And Life’s brightest promise be blighted by sin,—</div> - </div> -</div> - - -<div class="figcenter illowp10" style="max-width: 6.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">What bliss but to feel the cool print of thy sandal</div> - <div class="verse indent4">On fiery promptings and passions aglow;</div> - <div class="verse indent2">To nestle, like birds, ’neath thy sky-color’d mantle,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">And calm our hot hearts on thy bosom of snow!</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</span></p> -<div class="figcenter illowp10" style="max-width: 6.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">What bliss thro’ the darkness, the heat, and the clamor,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">To fly to thy feet, to thy virginal shrine,—</div> - <div class="verse indent2">And there, in thy presence, releas’d from Sin’s glamor,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Drink in deepest draughts of thy spirit divine!</div> - </div> -</div> - - -<div class="figcenter illowp10" style="max-width: 6.0625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/verse-break.png" alt=""> -</div> - -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent2">O drear would our life be without this fair Flower,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">This Lily of Israel, blooming alone!</div> - <div class="verse indent2">Sweet Christ! 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