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AMPHORA I O flower have I. O Queen, receive This sere and sodden leaf ! O Mary maiden, I believe ! Help Thou mine unbelief ! No sails have I. The tempests reave My wreck on Error’s reef. O Mary maiden, I believe ! Help Thou mine unbelief ! No wheat have I. O Queen, receive This coarse and oaten sheaf ! O Mary maiden, I believe ! Help Thou mine unbelief ! No lands have I. Do Thou retrieve My soul, the forfeit fief ! O Mary maiden, I believe ! Help Thou mine unbelief ! No joy have I. My follies grieve Me with exceeding grief. O Mary maiden, I bel…
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AMPHORA No CHRIST have I, save Thou achieve This miracle-in-chief ! O Mary maiden, I believe ! Help Thou mine unbelief ! Amen. 24
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Prologue OTHER and maiden ! on the natal night Embowered in bliss of roses red and white, Westward three Magi move to minister To Him with gold and frankincense and myrrh. Those Pagans gazing on the Heavenly Host Were blest of FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST ; And me, though I be as an heathen Mage, Thou wilt accept in this my pious page. M
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…o the river Of our anointed King ! With these desires my life be laden ! These two adore, my soul ! and sing ! Mary, Thou mildest mother-maiden, Thy SON, the Holy King ! Amen. 28
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…MPHORA I HE worlds were drunken as with wine When, shimmering from the throne divine, The soul of Mary fixed its ray Within the meek and maiden clay. The stars in mightier music rolled ; The sun achieved a gladder gold ; The moon less pure acclaimed the morn ; —Mary immaculate is born. Rejoice, O children of the earth, At your salvation brought to birth ! This is the perfect period. Mary is born that shall bear GOD. Amen. T 3
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…back again Ave, blessed Mary ! Purest lips of grace and youth Invocate Thy royal ruth, Conjure by the Word of Truth— Ave, blessed Mary ! Maiden bodies vowed to Thee, Souls of stainless chastity, Cry Thy worship ardently— Ave, blessed Mary ! I 68
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…ll hail ! Smite through Thy rended veil Light till our sun grows pale— Eclipsed, discrowned ! Now might not men withstand, Save that one maiden bland Aids with Her splendid hand Them whose poor power is spanned By earth’s sad ground. All hail ! dear CHRIST, all hail ! None could endure Thy pale Anguish ; all creatures veil Their woeful eyes. Joy fills the hells of hate. Thou shalt their rage abate, Conquer the lords of fate, Virgin immaculate, Serene and wise ! A 10
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… The fury of the ruthless king Inspires Her desert pilgrimage. O sorrow of pure eyes beneath The heavy-fringed ecstatic lids, Seeing for maiden song and wreath Sphinxes and pagan Pyramids ! O sorrow bitterer than death To leave the dear delighted land, And change the groves of Nazareth For lonely leagues of sterile sand ! To us who wander desolate In Earth’s sad wilderness do Thou Bend down Thy lips immaculate And touch and kiss the adoring brow ! Amen. A 25
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…s for a virginal gaud ! Crown Her, O crown Her with Light and the flame of the down-rushing Sword ! Crown Her, O crown Her with Love for maiden and Mother and wife ! Hail unto Mary ! Hail ! for She is the Lady of Life ! Mary crowned ! Amen. 14
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…ean Have bowed their royal knees Before the Galilean, The GOD of stars and seas, And tasted all the fervent grace That shone from Mary’s maiden face. T 56
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…d image of the blue, So in Thy Chapel may we see A faint enshadowing of Thee. Our minds are dull, our lives are base ; We cannot see the maiden face. Imagination may not run From moonlight to the self-lit sun. Darkly as in a glass we gaze And lose ourselves in pious praise. How then when risen and pure of heart In heaven we see Thee as Thou art ? O let the film of earth and sin Each day by love grow clear and thin ! O let Thy worship done aright Prepare us for the eternal Light ! Amen. A 39
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…e dolour dire ! O Thou whose life brought Light into the Light, Be with us now to comfort and console That this Thy servant, through Thy maiden might, Achieve the goodly goal ! 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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…he reels and plunges To the abyss, a noisome thing ! He falls ! Our sin Thy SON expunges ! Thy SON, the Holy King ! Then, O thou mildest maiden mother, Thou feedest us ! our crowns we fling Here at Thy feet, who art no other Than Lady of our King F 27