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AMPHORA X QUEEN of Wisdom, Queen of Thought, Bring us to Thine holy court ! Us, who wander in the maze Of the world’s deceitful ways, Bring to Thine assured assent By Thy mystic sacrament. Queen of Mercy, Queen of Might, Bring us to Thine ardent light ! We are weak and violent : By Thy mystic sacrament Bring us to Thy power and peace, To the passionless release ! Queen of Splendour, Queen of Love, Bring us to Thine House above, Where in love and splendour dwell All the saints that praise Thee well. Bring us to their great content By Thy mystic …
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…nerve us for the royal task And sink supine in feebleness. The Eye of Heaven to us is blind ; Time is so sad, and earth so grey ; But by Thine influence we find One steadfast star to shew the way. Thine is the sympathetic balm That eases from Life’s bruising rod ; And Thine the meek eternal calm That brings our souls in tune with GOD Amen. O 79
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AMPHORA So shall we sleep without alarm And wake refreshed to worship Thee, Thy children from infernal harm For ever free, Until we pray Thine holy breath To keep us in the Land of Death. Amen. 55
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… Mary, hail ! Our song goes up to Thee ; From Thee descends the quickening decree. Like trembling flowers our souls accept the stress Of Thine exalted dew of holiness. Amen. 37
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…eive Thy sinless love within ! Our souls are stained, our thoughts impure ; O Queen of Heaven, assoil Our error, our distemperature With Thine anointing oil ! Our censers fume before Thy feet. Through all the starry host Whisper the sacred words and sweet : “ Receive the HOLY GHOST ! ” Amen. O 15
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AMPHORA III Bewitched by sins and errors, By heresies defiled ; Avert the avenging terrors Of Thine insulted Child ! Schismatic from His Vicar, Despoilers of His flock : O Strike the saving liquor From out the barren rock ! IV Acknowledge our contrition ! Accept our sighs and tears ! Let English inanition Be lost in happier years ! On this stagnated water Evoke Thy glowing tide ! Our Church Thy worthy daughter, And His accepted Bride ! Amen. 67
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AMPHORA XII NDER the shade of flowering trees We kneel (Thine ardent devotees) And in Thy mercy find our ease. Beside the pleasant streams we move, Our thoughts concentrated on the above, And find our joyance in Thy love. When Death’s cold stream runs black and chill, And yew and cypress haunt the hill, Be Thou our love and comfort still. Receive us (by Thy Motherhood) By deathless stream and fadeless wood In Thy celestial solitude. Amen. U 38
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…ssed 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
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…MPHORA IX FT when our prayers and praises fail On wings unfledged to reach the Throne, Thou takest them beneath the veil And makest them Thine own. Of all our callow vows and cold, Born hardly to much bitterness, Thy mercy takes effectual hold And granteth them success. Not by our passion or our will The eager suppliant is heard, But by the white ecstatic thrill Of Thy serener word. Accept our prayer, accept our praise, O Thou all praise and prayer above ! O fix our weak and wavering will On Thee, the Queen of Love ! Amen. O 75
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…of the LORD ! Through thee by the infernal goad The seven bleeding sorrows flowed : Thou keepest secret and apart The wounds of JESUS in Thine heart. Through Thee by the divine consent The seven ecstatic joys are sent : Thy secret worship shall inspire Our hearts with His devoted fire. O mother, to Thy house of death We fly from life’s deceitful breath. O star of love upon the sea, We sail to Thee—we sail to Thee ! Amen. O 9
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…reasure. I scourge my body till the blood Pours from this heart that hateth light, Mix with its tide Thy crystal flood ! O Mary, cleanse Thine acolyte ! Accept this offering of pain ! Receive Thy neophyte’s devotion, Till to Thy peace he rise again, O star of love on sorrow’s ocean ! Amen. B 59
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… virtue of retreat and prayer, Of fasting and of vigilance, We pierce beyond to brilliance. For all the blessed blood that poured Out of Thine heart at sorrow’s sword Is borne in GOD’s cherubic cars About the sky to make us stars. We in the world of woe who stray Lift up our hearts to Thee and pray : Turn all our pain to virgin might, And all our sorrow into light ! Amen. T 29
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… cover the tree, And Mary is throned in the midst of the roses. Go take, O my soul, thy poor heart that has bled To pallor and death for thine evil behaviour ! The heart of the SAVIOUR redeems it to red, And Mary is throned in the heart of the SAVIOUR. Amen. G 8
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…oal ! Or, if Thy pleasure be to take from earth Thy servant to Thy holy house above, That Thou mayst hold her, safe in happier birth, In Thine especial love :— Or, if Thy pleasure be to take the child To join Thy choir of innocents in Heaven, We do assure Thee, Virgin undefiled, The gift is freely given. O 72
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AMPHORA I AINT MICHAEL ! by the altar stand And mark our praises sink and swell, The fire of heaven in Thine hand That bare the glad ensanguine brand, And smote the sons of hell. Be present all the starry host Of cherubim and seraphim, While, hasted by the HOLY GHOST, We raise on Time’s eroded coast Our rare and royal hymn. Let all the ripples of our song Exulting evermore converge In one the virgin wave and strong, Combine their chorus loud and long Re-quicken and up-surge ! Hail to the Virgin ! Hail ! we cry. Hail, Mary ! Hail ! All hail ! Al…
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…drawn Enkindles the night to the life of the Dawn. In the cup of the world, as pure water and wine, His sorrow is mingled and mixed into Thine, For a liquor to heal us the children of night, The Immaculate Light, the Immaculate Light ! Amen. A 50
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…minous ; But only Thou art worthy of the throne, O Mother and O daughter and O spouse Of Him that reigns above, triune, alone, And joins Thine equal splendour with His own ! Amen. T 49