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1908 · PDF PAGE 82

Amphora

AMPHORA 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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1908 · PDF PAGE 44

Amphora

AMPHORA Now is the royal mystery outrun ; Mary is gathered to the Holy One. The vision fails ; and we abase our eyes In silent praise and solemn ecstasies. Hail, 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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1908 · PDF PAGE 60

Amphora

…the sun uplifts his rim Above the sea, let us rejoice ! Exalt GOD’S Mother in the hymn With an united voice ! We gladly wake to toil and praise, Since these our purpose speed By walking humbly in Thy ways To worship Thee indeed. Let all the life and love and light Of earth and sky and sea Soar in one flame’s surpassing might To Thee—to Thee—to Thee ! Amen. N 53

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1908 · PDF PAGE 40

Amphora

…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

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1908 · PDF PAGE 77

Amphora

…ourney with us through the Pleasant Land ! Arise, O soul ! be thy devotion’s dower Keener and gladder every glad keen hour ! The rays of praise outglitter and outrun The candid brilliance of the choral sun. Hear us, O Mary, blessed Queen of GOD ! Bless Thou the wreath as Thou hast blessed the rod ! Endow us from Thy star-embattled coast With the perfections of the HOLY GHOST ! Amen. O 70

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1908 · PDF PAGE 83

Amphora

…onless 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 sacrament ! Amen. O 76

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1908 · PDF PAGE 46

Amphora

…ee 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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1908 · PDF PAGE 41

Amphora

AMPHORA X IRACULOUS birth of the roses In the fervour of summer aswing Awaken the soul that reposes To praise of our SAVIOUR the King. Let myrtle and honey and amber Be mixed in the censer and spiced That our worship may cluster and clamber To the mother of CHRIST and the CHRIST. Miraculous birth of the lilies, Afloat in the fountains that spring, One Voice on the lake that is still, is The voice of our SAVIOUR the King. Let corn for His Body be gilded ! Pour wine for His Blood the unpriced ! That a temple of worship be builded For CHRIST and t…

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1908 · PDF PAGE 43

Amphora

… devoured it in her warrior girth. I saw red war in heaven ; Saint Michael fell With all his angels on the host of hell. Saint Michael ! praise to thee who didst prevail And pen the demons in the hollow vale ! S 36

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1908 · PDF PAGE 12

Amphora

AMPHORA III E praise thee, blessed maid of GOD, That art the spirit in the sod. Thou art the bird within the bower, And Thou the honey in the flower ! Thou art the moon in Egypt’s night ; The shade from Afric’s blasting light ! In all the world of ill we bow To the one good, and that is Thou. For blazing in Thy blessed womb Glitters the CHRIST, a star of doom To cast the stars 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 r…

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1908 · PDF PAGE 56

Amphora

…the light of Thy celestial rain. Thou art the secret of the pure keen pleasure Whose fountain springs from the abyss of pain. Thee do we praise in many a merry measure Who art of GOD most high the single treasure. He hath ten jewels in His holy House ; All these be mystic, clear and luminous ; 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

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