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…of evil kings Into the blind abyss of things. Hail, Mary, hail ! Thou didst conceive The Holy Child whom we believe. Draw Thou our loyal spirits hence In rapture and in reverence ! Still be the beatific balm To heal, to comfort, and to calm ! Still make to bud the barren rod, And bring our spirits back to GOD ! Amen. W 5
…ame ; We join with one another To bless Her holy name. II O hear us, blessed Mary ! Thy graces send as dew, As kisses fond and faery Our spirits to renew ! O bid our sinful nation, The broken from the rod, By Thine initiation Soar subtly up to GOD ! I 66
AMPHORA XII WAKE the earthly choir To match the host of heaven, Where the seven lamps of mystic fire Shine, and the spirits seven ! In this religious gloom Invoke the light divine As, Mary, in Thy blessed womb GOD made the Daystar shine. This common fruit of earth Be made the Body of grace Even as the flesh by Jesu’s birth Was holy for a space. All things by heavenly power To that redemption come Equal before Thee in the hour Of joy or martyrdom. Amen. A 58
…ith their music that rouse and inspire ! Hark to the lordly celestial lyre ! Ave Maria ! Martyrs and virgins in ecstasy bow ; Angels and spirits their radiance vow Unto the vision supreme that is Thou, Ave Maria ! See where the cherubin pallid and plumed Swing with their thuribles praises perfumed ! JESUS is risen and Mary assumed :— Ave Maria ! We who are men—shall we flag in the praise Due to the Holy One, Ancient of Days ? Soar, O our song, in a crystal amaze ! Ave Maria ! Amen. H 33
…n our sin ! Match His Godhead with our guilt ! Light the love of GOD within ! O majestic ! O Divine ! O most merciful and pure ! Let our spirits at Thy shrine Humbled, gladden and endure ! Help the weakness of our sight Blind before Thy radiant face ! Bring us to Thy full delight By the ardour of Thy grace ! Darkling doors and dangerous In the ways of life and death :— Cleanse us ! help us ! succour us By the beatific breath ! M 18
AMPHORA X Vespers OW at the setting of the sun We turn our thoughts to rest and sleep. Do Thou, O chaste and Holy One, Our spirits keep ! O shed Thy radiance forth in streams To keep us in the Land of Dreams ! The subtle enemy of man Marshals his hosts to work us ill. His demons bloat or deathly wan Sustain his will. More than day’s arrow doth affright The Fear that walketh in the night. Keep Thou our dreams ! Let holy words And angel voices breathing balm And sweetly-tuned celestial birds Uplift their psalm ! Our meditations on Thy grace Blend…
AMPHORA XI EVEN are the Spirits and the lamps are seven ; I saw a wonder in the house of heaven. Behold a woman girded with the sun Beneath whose feet the liquid moon did run ! Twelve were the stars that crowned that shining head Whereon the HOLY GHOST His silence shed, That so Her womb a SAVIOUR should environ To rule the nations with a rod of iron. I saw moreover how She bore the Child, And how the Dragon drave Her to the wild, Loosing a flood of venom ; but the earth Gaped and devoured it in her warrior girth. I saw red war in heaven ; Saint…