^^ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT 3) 4 // A Z ^ 1.0 I.I 11.25 M M 1.8 1.4 111111.6 V] «^ /a /a y M <^V#5> rv a^^ .L % ^ . m w ^ .^ 1 CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Series. CIHM/ICMH Collection de microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions Institut Canadian de microreproductions historiques 1980 Technical Notes / Notes techniques The Institute has attempted to obtain the best original copy available for filming. Physical features of this copy which may alter any of the images in the reproduction are checked below. Coloured covers/ Couvertures de couleur Coloured maps/ Cartes gdographiques en couleur L'Institut a microfilm^ le meilleur exemplaire qu'ii lui a 6t6 possible de se procurer. Certains ddfauts susceptibles de nuire d la quality de la reproduction sont not6s ci-dessous. 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BBl n'l7 (33) ?>'k4 0^ He was drawing pictures for them as well as telling stories — of the three"student8 entering the room in which the landlady's daughter lay dead— of Barbarossa in his cave — of the child who usecT to look up at Heine as he passed her in the street, awe- stricken by his pale and strange face — of the last of the band of companions who sat in the solitary room in which they had sat, and drank to their memory — of the King of Thule, and the de- serter of Strasburg and a thousand others. " But is there any of them— is there anything tn the world- more pitiable than that pilgrimage to Kevlaar?" he said, " You know it of course. No? Oh, you must, surely. Don't you re- member the mother who stood bv her sick son, and asked him whether he would not rise to see the great procession go by the window ; and he tells her that he cannot, he is so ill : his heart is breaking for thinking of his Gretchen ? Yon know the story. Sheila. The mother begs him to rise and come with her, and they will join the band of pilgrims going to Kevlaar, to be healed there of their wounds by the Mother of God. Then you find them at Kevlaar, and all the maimed and the lame people have come to the shrine; and whichever limb is diseased, they make a waxen image of that and lay it on the altar, and then they are healed. Well, the mother of this poor lad takes wax and forms a heart out of it, and says to her son, ' Take that to the Mother of God, and she will heal your pain.' Sighing, he takes the wax heart in his hand, and sighing, he goes to the shrine ; and there, with tears running down his face, he says : ' O, beautiful Queen of Heaven, I am come to tell you my grief. I lived with my mother in Co- logne : near us lived Gretchen, who is dead now. Blessed Mary I bring you this wax heart: heal the wound in my heart.' And then — and then " " Well, the last scene you know, is a small chamber, and the mother and her sick son are asleep. The Blessed Mary glides into the chamber and bends over the son, and puts her hand light- ly on his heart. Then she disappears. The unhappy mother has seen all this in a dream, and now she awakes, for the dogs are barking loudly. The mother goes over to the bed of her son, and he is dead, and the morning light touches his pale face. — Black : A Princess of Thule. \ -»• ' > Tiin PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR. I * I. The mother stands by the window — In bed the sick son lay — Wilt thou not, Wilhelm, rise and sec The Piln^rims on their way ? I am so sick, dear Mother, I care for nothing more : I think of tlie dead pale Gretchcn, And all my heart is sore. Nay, Child, we will to Kevlaar With book and garland go : And the Mother of God shall heal thy heart Of all its bitter woe. The banners flutter, and ever The hymn of glory flows — From proud Cologne upon the Rhine The long procession goes. The mother follows slowly, She leads her boy along — 'O Mary, ever praised be thou!" So Hows tlie ceaseless song. 11. The Mother of God in Kevlaar To-day is robed and crown'd : Much work. Good Lord, hath she to do, TJje sick so pi js around. And each an offering bringeth At Mary's shrine to lay : Many wax-hands and many feet Are offer'd there to-day. And who a wax hand bringeth, His hand is heai'd anon : And who a waxen foot shall bring, His weary halt is gone. A wax heart forms the mother, With many a tearful vow — Take this to the Holy Mother of God, And she will heal thee now. The son took the wax heart sadly— Went sad to the Holy Maid— J'he tears, he could not keap them back, As, bending low, he said : Thou ever-blessed Mary ! Thou Virgin free from stain ! C) Queen of Heaven, hear my prayer. My heart is sick with pain. 1 jive with the dear kind mother In that Rhine city old, Cologne, that hath its hundred spires And chapels rich with gold. And close to us, lived Gretchen: But now she comes no more- Take thou this heart, and heal the wound That maketh mine so sore. O heal my sick heart, Mary ! O help and heal me now ; And early and late will 1 pray, and sing 'O Mary, praised be thou'! III. The sick son aiid the jnr,lli« r They slept in their little room : The Mother of (iod came softi) ihere. In silence throiij^h the gloom. Over the boy she bent her — A light around her shone — She laid her hand on his heart, and smiled- And lil^'e g dream was ^rone. In her dreams the mother saw her So lightly come and go : Then suddenly woke and look d nround- The dogs moan'd loud, below. There lay her W'ilhelm calmly — She call'd — but he was dead : Over his wasted cheek there fell A ray of the morning red. She stood with trembling hands — She felt, she knew not how — But softly in her heart she said 'O Mary, praised be thou' ! E. J. C, Toronto, August 25, 1S77