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AMPHORA VI IFT up, mine heart ! Lift up, mine heart ! The autumn leaves of earth depart Before the buds in heaven that bloomed To greet Thee, Mary maid, assumed. All earth and heaven compose Thy throne ; All saints and maids and martyrs own The joyous gift of GOD to Thee, And Angels quire Thy sanctity. Abase, my head, to this Divine Decree, and worship Mary’s shrine Wherefrom the healing springs upstart :— Lift up, mine heart ! Lift up, mine heart ! Amen. L 30
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… 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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…l 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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AMPHORA VIII In Time of Drought HEN drought of summer parches up Earth’s beatific bowers, O pour from Thy crystalline cup Ambrosial showers ! We wander shelterless athirst Throughout the wilderness, And Thou our pilgrimage accurst Alone canst bless. The red sun scorches up our veins ; The white moon makes us mad ; Pitiless stars insult our pains With clamour glad. But Thou art shelter and defence From them that rage and spoil. Assain our lives with penitence ! Our souls assoil ! Amen. W 52
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…r in our distress ; We 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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…ed, 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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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
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…th 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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AMPHORA IX ARK to the cry of the heavenly choir Earth with their music that rouse and inspire ! Hark to the lordly celestial lyre ! Ave Maria ! Martyrs and virgins in ecstasy bow ; Angels and spirits 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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… upon my bed For Her to whom my worship soars ; By day I bow my weary head Within Her melancholy doors. I shall not ever be content With earth and all its tedious pleasure. I look toward the great event, To Mary’s bliss, the starry treasure. 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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AMPHORA V HE earth is dark, save where desires Exhale their black and bitter fires. Save for Thy sorrow, heaven is bright With cool and soft celestial light. 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 …
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… 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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…ow 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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… with a rod of iron. I saw moreover how She bore the Child, And how the Dragon drave Her to the wild, Loosing a flood of venom ; but the earth Gaped and 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