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… God, And Her tears are like rain to enliven the sod, While the Blood of the LORD from His Body that runs Is the heat of the summer, the fire of its suns. In the darkness and fear of the torturing hours, The Mother brings life in the strength of Her showers ; The Son with the fire of His Passion withdrawn Enkindles the night to the life of the Dawn.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
1911 · PDF PAGE 42
AMPHORA Yet daily our worship shall quicken The dust, till our souls are sufficed With the fire from the stars of Ye stricken, O CHRIST and O Mother of CHRIST. Amen. 35
1911 · PDF PAGE 65
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
1911 · PDF PAGE 21
AMPHORA Flame, ye young fingers of light, on the West of the Dawning that run ! Flame, O thou Meteor Car, for Her fire is exalted in thee ! Lighten the darkness, and herald the daylight, and waken the sea ! Flame, O flame ! Crown Her, O crown Her with Stars as with flowers 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
1911 · PDF PAGE 16
…eart. 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
1911 · PDF PAGE 54
…ung rains Upon thy bleak and barren plains. By many a mental martyrdom Our sterile souls to Mary come. Who passeth through the surge and fire At last shall win to his desire. Thy grace for us sufficient still To smite the arbiters of ill Shall grant the exceeding great reward To look by Thee upon the LORD. Be still, my soul, whate’er assail ! Through Mary they shall not prevail ; And thou resigned in peace await Her peace at Her appointed date. Amen. B 47
1911 · PDF PAGE 50
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…
1911 · PDF PAGE 20
…, ye wild billows of ether ! the cymbal is shaken and sounds ! Wild and sonorous the clamour, vast in the region of death, Live with the Fire of the Spirit, the essence and flame of the breath ! Sound, O sound ! Gleam in the world of the dark, where the chained ones shall tremble and flee ! Gleam in the skies of the dusk, for the Light of the Dawn is in me ! Light on the forehead, and life in the nostrils, and love in the breast, Shine, O thou Star of the Dawning, thou Sun of the Radiant Crest ! Shine, O shine ! Flame through the sky in the str…