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AMPHORA IV Pro Gentibus N the choir’s delicious dim Fragrance let us lift the hymn Fiery as the Seraphim— Ave, blessed Mary ! Send the sweet and solemn strain Through the far enchanted fane, Till the skies ring 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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AMPHORA As from heaven the lightnings hurled Let our song be lashed and curled Round the shoulders of the world ! Ave, blessed Mary ! Let the joys thereof assuage Heathen horrors in their rage Grisly war on Thee that wage— Ave, blessed Mary ! Let Thy foes be brought to shame. Turn their hearts to holy flame To the glory of Thy name— Ave, blessed Mary ! Crown our arms with water crossed ! Bring to perfect Pentecost All the legions of the lost ! Ave, blessed Mary ! Amen. 69
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…ing to me. I hail Thee holy Mary. By day and night I sit alone Mute as a monument of stone, And meditate before the throne Of bright and blessed Mary. I see Her glory from afar Gleam like some cold and sacred star Among the solitudes that are The shrines of blessed Mary. Bid Thou these filmy eyes to see ! Turn Thou this heart to grace and gree ! Bring Thou my sense-dulled self to Thee, O bright and blessed Mary ! The song may cease, but through the air Ever shall course the perfect prayer Even to Thy heart, O royal, rare, And holy Virgin Mary !…
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…er 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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…th divide And usher man to bliss or bale He hath an hour to heal his pride And greet Thee with a glad “ All hail ” ! CHORUS ; Hail Mary, blessed through the ages ! Hail Mary, blessed to the term ! Thou hast stilled the heathen as he rages, And trod upon the laidly worm. II In calm and storm, in peace and strife, There is a lull ; be ours to scale Therein the pinnacles of life By greeting Thee with Mary hail ! III Some of us conquer and succeed ; Some in the battle flinch and fail : Thou art enough for either need :— All greet Thee with the glad…
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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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…ay ; Strange faces glimmer in the gloom ; The soul clings feebly to the clay. For that, the void ; for this, the tomb ! But Mary sheds a blessed light ; Her perfect face dispels the fears. She charms Her melancholy knight Up to the glad and gracious spheres. O Mary, like a pure perfume Do thou receive this failing breath, And with Thy starry lamp illume The darkling corridors of death ! Amen. T 7
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…se the choral hymn. To GOD’S eternal Mother We lift our hearts of flame ; 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
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…en, 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
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…. But gazing deeper as we dare By 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