& UltS* >/• JJIT ^OJIIYJJO ^Aavaan ^ios-anch© i-Kfc: C? *eJ "%3AIMMtf^ $sr l@ <$EUBRARY0/- By the samp Author. I. THE SEAECH AETEE PEOSEEPINE, and Other Poems. 12ino 7s. 6d. J. H. and J. Parkeb, Oxford and London. ii. POEMS (MISCELLANEOUS AND SACEED). Foap. 8vo 4s. 6d. Buens and Lambeet, London. MAY CAROL S. Londos : Printed by Spottiswoode & Co New-street Square. MAY CAKOLS, BY AUBREY DE VERE. LONDON : LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS. 1857. .«:..i. 4 .. r t ,.s.,.^i„4 H5H7 (Yl TO THE VERY REVEREND HENEY EDWARD MANNING THESE POEMS ARE AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED INTRODUCTION. The wisdom of the Church, which consecrates the fleeting seasons of Time to the interests of Eter- nity, has dedicated the month of May (the birthday festival, as it were, of Creation) to her who was ever destined in the Divine Counsels to become the Mother of her Creator. It belongs to her, of course, as she is the representative of the Incarnation, and its practical exponent to a Avorld but too apt to forget what it professes to hold. The following Poems, written in her honour, are an attempt to set forth, though but in mere outline, each of them some one of the great Ideas or essential Principles embodied in that all-embracing Mystery. On a topic so comprehensive, converse statements, at one time illustrating the highest excellence com- patible with mere creaturely existence, at another, the infinite distance between the chief of creatures and the Creator, may seem, at first sight, and to some eyes, contradictory, although in reality, mutually correlative. On an attentive perusal, however, that harmony which exists among the VI INTRODUCTION. many portions of a single mastering Truth, can hardly fail to appear — and with it the scope and aim of this Poem. With the meditative, descriptive pieces have been interspersed. They are an attempt towards a Christian rendering of external nature. Nature, like Art, needs to be spiritualised, unless it is to remain a fortress in the hands of an adverse Power. The visible world is a passive thing, which ever takes its meaning from something above itself. In Pagan times, it drew its interpretation from Pantheism ; and to Pantheism — nay, to that Ido- latry which is the popular application of Pan- theism — it has still a secret, though restrained tendency, not betrayed by literature alone. A World without Divinity, Matter without Soul, is intolerable to the human mind. Yet, on the other hand, there is much in fallen human nature which shrinks from the sublime thought of a Creator, and rests on that of a sheathed Divinity diffused throughout the universe, its life, not its maker. Mere personified elements, the Wood-God and River-Nymph, captivate the fancy and do not over-awe the soul. For a bias so seductive, no cure is to be found save in authentic Christianity, the only practical Theism. The whole truth, on the long run, holds its own better than the half truth ; and minds repelled by the thought of a God who stands afar off, and created the universe but to abandon it to general laws, fling themselves at the feet of a God made Man. In other words, INTRODUCTION. Vll the Incarnation is the Complement of Creation. In it is revealed the true nature of that link which binds together the visible and invisible worlds. When the " Word was made Flesh," a bridge was thrown across that gulf which had else for ever separated the Finite from the Infinite. The same high Truth which brings home to us the doctrine of a Creation, consecrates that Creation, reconstituting it into an Eden meet for an unfallen Adam and an unfallen Eve ; nay, exalting it into a heavenly Jerusalem, the dwelling-place of the Lamb and of the Bride. It does this, in part, through symbols and associations founded on the all-cleansing Blood and the all-sanctifying Spirit — symbols and associations the reverse of those in which an Epicurean mythology took delight, and which the very superficial alone can confound with such. This is perhaps the aspect of Religion least above the level of Poetry. As to its form, the present work belongs to the class of serial poems, a species of composition happily revived in recent times, as by Wordsworth, in his " Ecclesiastical Sketches," and " Sonnets dedicated to Liberty," by Landor, and, with pre- eminent success, by the author of " In Memoriam." It was in common use among our earlier poets, who derived it from Petrarch and the Italians. Most often the interest of such poems was of a personal sort, as in the serial sonnets of Shake- speare, Spenser, Sidney, Drummond, Daniel, and Drayton ; as well as the " Aurora " of Lord viii INTRODUCTION. .Stirling, and the "Astrea" of Sir John Davies. Occasionally, it was of a more abstract character. In both cases, alike, advantage was derived from a method of writing which unites an in- definite degree of continuity with a somewhat lawless variety, and which gains in brevity by the omission of connecting bonds. In Herbert's "Temple," Vaughans "Silex Scintillans," and the chief poems of Donne and Crashaw, the unity is but that of kindred thoughts, and a common sub- ject, not of a complete design. Habington's " Cas- tara," a noble work too little known, combines a personal with an abstract interest. In it many poems on religious and philosophical subjects are grouped for support round a single centre ; that centre being the sustained homage paid by the poet to one not unworthy, apparently, of his reverence and love. CONTENTS. Prologue page XV PART I. Who feels not, when the Spring once more Upon Thy face, O God, thy world All but unutterable Name Sancta Maria Dei Genitrix Virgo Virginum . Ascending from the convent-grates Adolescentulae amaverunt te nimis Mater Christi Mater Christi Mater Creatoris Mater Salvatoris . Mater Dolorosa Mater Dolorosa Mater Admirabilis Mater Amabilis Mater Filii Mater Divinae Gratiae Mater Divinae Gratiae When April's sudden sunset cold As children when, with heavy tread 3 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 CONTENTS. Maria; Cliens Fest. Visitationis . Not yet, not yet ! the Season sings Fest. Nativitatis B. V. M. The moon, ascending o'er a mass A dream came to me while the night Fest. Purificationis Fest. Epiphania: . The sunless day is sweeter yet . Legenda .... PAGE 26 28 29 30 32 33 34 35 36 37 PART II. Conservabat in Corde ..... .41 Ascensio Domini ..... 42 Ascensio Domini .... 43 Elias 44 Stronger and steadier every hour 45 Speculum Justitiae 46 Munera ..... 48 Predestinata .... 49 Three worlds there are: — the first of Sense — 51 Alas ! not only loveliest eyes 52 Idolatria ... 53 Tota Pulchra .... 55 Stella Matutina .... 57 Janua Cceli .... 58 If sense of Man's unworthiness . 60 Causa Nostra Laetitiae 61 Stella Maris .... 62 Blossom for ever, blossoming Rod ! 64 Unica ..... 65 Magnificat ..... 66 Mystica ..... 67 CONTENTS. XI Expectatio ..... Still on the gracious work proceeds Turris Eburnea .... Who doubts that thou art finite ? Who They seek not ; or amiss they seek A sudden sun-burst in the woods Dominica Pentecostes Dominica Pentecostes Turris Davidica .... " Tu sola interemisti omnes Hasreses " PAGE 68 70 71 73 74 75 76 7H 79 80 PART III. In vain thine altars do they heap ..... 83 Babylon ...... 84 The golden rains are dashed against 85 Sedes Sapientias ..... 86 Sedes Sapiential ..... *7 Here, in this paradise of light 88 Fest. B. V. M. de Monte Carmelo 89 Come from the midnight mountain tops 91 Advocata Nostra ..... 92 Thronus Trinitatis .... 93 Cultus Sanctorum ..... 94 Fest. S. S. Trinitatis ..... 96 Where is the crocus now, that first 98 " Ad Nives "..... 99 Fest. Puritatis ..... 101 Cloud.piercing Mountains ! Chance and Change 103 Foederis Area ..... 104 Domus Aurea ..... 105 Respexit Humilitatem ..... 106 Respexit Humilitatem .... ■ . 107 Xll CONTENTS. " Sine Labe originali Concepta " " Sine Labe originali Concepta " Brow-bound with myrtle and with gold Corpus Christi Corpus Christi Pleasant the swarm about the bough Sing on, wide winds, your anthems vast Coeli enarrant Caro factus est . A woman " clothed with the sun " No ray of all their silken sheen . PAGE 109 110 111 112 114 115 116 117 119 121 122 Epilogue . 125 PROLOGUE. Jrjoljopfitc. That sun-eyed Power which stands sublime Upon the rock that crowns our globe, Her feet on all the spoils of time, With light eternal on her robe, She, sovereign of the orb she guides, On Truth's broad sun may root a gaze That deepens, onward as she rides, And shrinks not from the fontal blaze : But they — her daughter Arts — must hide Within the cleft, content to see Dim skirts of glory waving wide, And steps of parting Deity. 'Tis theirs to watch Religion break In types from Nature's frown or smile, The legend rise from out the lake, The relic consecrate the isle. PROLOGUE. "Tis theirs to adumbrate and suggest ; To point toward founts of buried lore ; Leaving, in reverence, unexpressed What Man must know not, yet adore. For where her court true Wisdom keeps, 'Mid loftier handmaids, one there stands Dark as the midnight's starry deeps, A Slave, gem-crowned, from Nubia's sands. O thou whose light is in thy heart Love-taught Submission ! without thee Science may soar awhile ; but Art Drifts barren o'er a shoreless sea. MAY CAROLS. PART I. MAY CAROLS. PAST I. I. Who feels not, when the Spring once more, Stepping o'er Winter's grave forlorn With winged feet, retreads the shore Of widowed Earth, his bosom burn ? As ordered flower succeeds to flower, And May the ladder of her sweets Ascends, advancing hour by hour From scale to scale, what heart but beats ? Some Presence veiled, in fields and groves, That mingles rapture with remorse ; — Some buried joy beside us moves, And thrills the soul with such discourse B 2 SIAY CAKOLS. As they, perchance, that wondering pair Who to Emniaus bent their way, Hearing, heard not. Like them our prayer We make : — " The night is near us . . Stay !" AVith Paschal chants the churches ring ; Their echoes strike along the tombs ; The birds their Hallelujahs sing ; Each flower with floral incense fumes. Our long-lost Eden seems restored; As on we move with tearful eyes We feel through all the illumined sward Some upward-working Paradise. MAY CAROLS. II. Upon Thy face, O God, Thy world Looks ever up in love and awe ; Thy stars, in circles onward hurled, Still weave the sacred chain of law. In alternating antiphons Stream sings to stream and sea to sea ; And moons that set and sinking suns Obeisance make, O God, to Thee. The swallow, winter's rage o'erblown, Again, on warm May breezes borne, Revisiteth her haunts well-known ; The lark is faithful to the morn. The whirlwind, missioned with its wings To drown the fleet and fell the tower, Obeys thee as the bird that sings Her love-chant in a fleeting shower. Amid an ordered universe Man's spirit only dares rebel : — With light, O God, its darkness pierce ! With love its raging chaos quell ! B 3 MAT CAROLS. III. All but unutterable Name ! Adorable, yet awful, sound ! Thee can the sinful nations frame Save with their foreheads to the ground ? Soul-searching and all-cleansing Fire ! To see Thy countenance were to die : Yet how beyond the bound retire Of Thy serene immensity ? Thou mov'st beside us, if the spot We change — a noteless, wandering tribe ; The orbits of our life and thought In Thee their little arcs describe. In the dead calm, at cool of day, We hear Thy voice, and turn, and flee : — Thy love outstrips us on our way : From Thee, O God, we fly — to Thee. MAY CAROLS. mwtm mm. IV. Mary ! To thee the humble cry. What seek they ? Gifts to Pride unknown. They seek thy help — to pass thee by : — They murmur, " Show us but thy Son." The childlike heart shall enter in ; The virgin soul its God shall see : — Mother, and maiden pure from sin, Be thou the guide : the Way is He. The mystery high of God made Man Through thee to man is easier made : Pronounce the consonant who can Without the softer vowel's aid ! b 4 MAT CAROLS. gei tote. I see Him : on thy lap He lies 'Mid that Judaean stable's gloom : O sweet, O awful Sacrifice ! He smiles in sleep, yet knows His doom. Thou gav'st Him life ! But was not this That life which knows no parting breath? Unmeasured life ? unwaning bliss ? Dread Priestess, lo ! thou gav'st Him death ! Beneath the tree thy mother stood : Beneath the cross thou too shalt stand : — O Tree of Life ! O bleeding Rood ! Thy shadow stretches far its hand. That God who made the sun and moon In swaddling bands lies dumb and bound ! — Love's Captive ! darker prison soon Awaits Thee in the garden ground. He wakens. Paradise looks forth Beyond the portals of the grave. Life, life thou gavest ! life to Earth, Not Him. Thine Infant dies to save. MAT CAROLS. ftrajor DirgtmtM. VI. When from their lurking place the Voice Of God dragged forth that fallen pair, Still seemed the garden to rejoice ; The sinless Eden still was fair. They, they alone, whose light of grace But late made Paradise look dim, Stood now, a blot upon its face, Before their God ; nor gazed on Him. They glanced not up ; or they had seen In that severe, death-dooming eye Unutterable depths serene Of sadly-piercing sympathy. Not them alone that Eye beheld, But, by their side, that other Twain, In whom the race whose doom was knelled Once more should rise ; once more should reign. 10 MAY CAROLS. It saw that Infant crowned with blood ; — And her from whose predestined breast That Infant ruled the worlds. She stood, Her foot upon the serpent's crest ! Voice of primeval prophecy ! She who makes glad whatever heart Adores her Son and Saviour, she In thee, that hour, possessed a part ! MAY CAEOLS. 11 VII. Ascending from the convent-grates, The children mount the woodland vale. 'Tis May-Day Eve ; and Hesper waits To light them, while the western gale Blows softly on their bannered line : And, lo ! down all the mountain stairs The shepherd children come to join The convent children at their prayers. They meet before Our Lady's fane : On yonder central rock it stands, Uplifting, ne'er invoked in vain, That cross which blesses all the lands. Before the porch the flowers are flung'; The lamp hangs glittering 'neath the Rood ; The " Maris Stella " hymn is sung ; Their chant each morn to be renewed. Ah ! if a secular muse might dare, Far off, the children's song to catch ; To echo back, or burthen bear ! — As fitly might she hope to match The linnet's note as theirs, 'tis true : Yet, now and then, that borrowed tone, Like sunbeams flashed on pine or yew, Might shoot a sweetness through her own ! 12 MAT CAROLS. Jpolcstcnteto amatami ft minis. VIII. " Behold ! the wintry rains are past ; The airs of midnight hurt no more : The young maids love thee. Come at last : Thou lingerest at the garden-door. " Blow over all the garden ; blow, Thou wind that breathest of the south, Through all the alleys winding low, With dewy wing and honeyed mouth. " But wheresoe'er thou wanderest, shape Thy music ever to one Name : — Thou too, clear stream, to cave and cape Be sure thou whisper of the same. " By every isle and bower of musk Thy crystal clasps, as on it curls, We charge thee, breathe it to the dusk ; We charge thee, grave it in thy pearls." The stream obeyed. That Name he bore Far out above the moon-lit tide. The breeze obeyed. He breathed it o'er The unforgetting pines ; and died. MAY CAROLS. 13 liter tftaisft IX. Daily beneath His mother's eyes Her Lamb matured His lowliness : 'Twas hers the lovely Sacrifice With fillet and with flower to dress. Beside His little cross He knelt ; With human-heavenly lips He prayed : His Will within her will she felt ; And yet His Will her will obeyed. Gethsemane! when day is done Thy flowers with falling dews are wet : Her tears fell never ; for the sun Those tears that brightened never set. The house was silent as that shrine The priest but entered once a year. There shone His emblem. Light Divine .' Thy presence and Thy power was here ! 14 MAY CAROLS. Jto Cbristi. Hi willed to lack ; He willed to bear ; He willed by suffering to be schooled ; He willed the chains of flesh to wear : Yet from her arms the worlds He ruled. As tapers 'mid the noontide glow With merged yet separate radiance burn, "With human taste and touch, even so, The things He knew He willed to learn. He sat beside the lowly door : His homeless eyes appeared to trace In evening skies remembered lore, And shadows of His Father's face. One only knew Him. She alone Who nightly to His cradle crept, And lying like the moonbeam prone, Worshipped her Maker as He slept. MAT CAROLS. 15 rter featt. XL Bud forth a Saviour, Earth ! fulfil Thy first of functions, ever new ! Balm-dropping heaven, for aye distil Thy grace like manna or like dew ! ' To us, this day, a Child is born." Heaven knows not mere historic facts Celestial mysteries, night and morn, Live on in ever-present Acts. Calvary's dread Victim in the skies On God's great altar rests even now : The Pentecostal glory lies For ever round the Church's brow. From Son and Father, He, the Lord Of Love and Life, proceeds alway : Upon the first creative word Creation, trembling, hangs for aye. Nor less ineffably renewed Than when on earth the tie began, Is that mysterious Motherhood Which re-creates the worlds and man. 16 MAY CAROLS. akr SsWotw. XII. Heaet with His in just accord ! O Soul His echo, tone for tone ! O Spirit that heard, and kept His word ! O Countenance moulded like His own ! Behold, she seemed on Earth to dwell ; But, hid in light, alone she sat Beneath the Throne ineffable, Chanting her clear Magnificat. Fed from the boundless heart of God, The joy within her rose more high And all her being overflowed, Until the awful hour was nigh. Then, then, there crept her spirit o'er The shadow of that pain world-wide Whereof her Son the substance bore : — Him offering, half in Him she died ; Standing like that strange Moon, whereon The mask of Earth lies dim and dead, An orb of glory, shadow-strewn, Yet girdled with a luminous thread. MAY CAROLS. 17 ster Balaxm. XIII. She stood : she sank not. Slowly fell Adovvn the Cross the atoning blood. In agony ineffable She offered still His own to God. No pang of His her bosom spared ; She felt in Him its several power. But she in heart His Priesthood shared : She offered Sacrifice that hour. " Behold thy Son ! " Ah, last bequest! It breathed His last farewell ! The sword Predicted pierced that hour her breast. She stood : she answered not a word. His own in John He gave. She wore Thenceforth the Mother-crown of Earth. O Eve ! thy sentence too she bore ; Like thee in sorrow she brought forth. 18 MAT CAROLS. Pater golorosit. XIV. From her He passed : yet still with her The endless thought of Him found rest ; A sad but sacred branch of myrrh For ever folded in her breast. A Boreal winter void of light — So seemed her widowed days forlorn : She slept ; but in her breast all night Her heart lay waking till the morn. Sad flowers on Calvary that grew ; — Sad fruits that ripened from the Cross ; — These were the only joys she knew : Yet all but these she counted loss. Love strong as Death ! She lived through thee That mystic life whose every breath From Life's low harpstring amorously Draws out the sweetened name of Death. Love stronger far than Death or Life ! Thy martyrdom was o'er at last. Her eyelids drooped ; and without strife To Him she loved her spirit passed. MAY CAROLS. 19 Stabr Skirabilis. ci XV. Mother-Maid ! to none save thee Belongs in full a Parent's name ; So fruitful thy Virginity, Thy Motherhood so pure from blame ! All other parents, what are they ? Thy types. In them thou stood'st rehearsed, (As they in bird, and bud, and spray). Thine Antitype ? The Eternal First ! Prime Parent He : and next Him thou ! O'ershadowed by the Father's Might, Thy " Fiat " was thy bridal vow ; Thine offspring He, the " Light of Light." Her Son Thou wert : her Son Thou art, O Christ ! Her substance fed Thy growth : - She shaped Thee in her virgin heart, Thy Mother and Thy Father both ! c 2 20 MAT CAROLS. Pater gmabilis. XVI. Mother of Love ! Thy love to Him Cherub and seraph can but guess : — A mother sees its image dim In her own breathless tenderness. That infant touch none else could feel Vibrates like light through all her sense : Far off she hears his cry : her zeal With, lions fights in his defence. Unmarked his youth goes by : his hair Still smooths she down, still strokes apart The first white thread that meets her there Glides, like a dagger, through her heart. Men praise him : on her matron cheek There dawns once more a maiden red. Of war, of battle-fields they speak : She sees once more his father dead. In sickness — half in sleep — she hears His foot, ere yet that foot is nigh : Wakes with a smile ; and scarcely fears, If he but clasp her hand, to die. MAY CAROLS. 2] XVII. Others, the hours of youth gone by, A mother's hearth and home forsake; And, with the need, the filial tie Relaxes, though it does not break. But Thou wert born to be a Son. God's Son in heaven, Thy will was this, To pass the chain of Sonship on, And bind in one whatever is. Thou cam'st the So?i of Man to be, That so Thy brethren too might bear Adoptive Sonship, and with Thee Thy Sire's eternal kingdom share. Transcendently the Son Thou art : In this nrysterious bond entwine, As in a single, two-celled heart, Thy natures, human and divine. c 3 22 MAY CAROLS. Pater $itom» $x%tm. XVIII. " They have no wine." The tender guest Was grieved their feast should lack for aught. He seemed to slight her mute request : Not less the grace she wished He wrought. O great in Love ! O full of Grace ! That winds in thee, a river broad, From Christ, with heaven-reflecting face, Gladdening the City of thy God : — Be this thy gift : that man henceforth No more should creep through life content (Draining the springs impure of earth) "With life's material element. Let sacraments to sense succeed : Let nought be winning, nought be good Which fails of Him to speak, and bleed Once more with His all-cleansing- blood ! MAY CAROLS. 23 gjatcr jgiimut iraik XIX. The gifts a mother showers each day Upon her softly-clamorous brood : The gifts they value but for play, — The graver gifts of clothes and food, — Whence come they but from him who sows With harder hand, and reaps, the soil ; The merit of his labouring brows, The guerdon of his manly toil ? From Him the Grace : through her it stands Adjusted, meted, and applied ; And ever, passing through her hands, Enriched it seems, and beautified. Love's mirror doubles Love's caress : Love's echo to Love's voice is true : — Their Sire the children love not less Because they clasp a Mother too. c 4 24 MAY CAROLS. XX. When April's sudden sunset cold Through boughs half-clothed with watery sheen Bursts on the high, new-cowslipped wold, And bathes a world half gold half green, Then shakes the illuminated air With din of birds ; the vales far down Grow phosphorescent here and there ; Forth flash the turrets of the town ; Along the sky thin vapours scud ; Bright zephyrs curl the choral main ; The wild ebullience of the blood Rings joy-bells in the heart and brain : Yet in that music discords mix ; The unbalanced lights like meteors play ; And, tired of splendours that perplex, The dazzled spirit sighs for May. MAT CAROLS. ^O XXI. As children when, with heavy tread, Men sad of face, unseen before, Have borne away their mother dead — So stand the nations thine no more. From room to room those children roam, Heart- stricken by the unwonted black : Their house no longer seems their home : They search ; yet know not what they lack. Years pass : Self-Will and Passion strike Their roots more deeply day by day ; Old servants weep ; and " how unlike " Is all the tender neighbours say. And yet at moments, like a dream, A mother's image o'er them flits : Like her's their eyes a moment beam ; The voice grows soft ; the brow unknits. Such, Mary, are the realms once thine, That know no more thy golden reign. Hold forth from heaven thy Babe divine ! O make thine orphans thine again ! 26 SIAY CAROLS. ISnfe dims. ht. And why ? Because the sin of man 'Twixt Fair and Good has made divorce ; And stained, since Evil first began. That stream so heavenly at its source. O perishable vales and groves ! Your master was not made for you; Ye are but creatures : human loves Are to the great Creator due. And yet, through Nature's symbols dim, There are with keener sight that pierce The outward husk, and reach to Him Whose garment is the universe. For this to earth the Saviour came In flesh ; in part for this He died ; That man might have, in soul and frame, No faculty unsanctified. That Fancy's self — so prompt to lead Through paths disastrous or defiled — Upon the Tree of Life might feed; And Sense with Soul be reconciled. MAY CAROLS. 53 IMatua. XI. The fancy of an age gone by, When Fancy's self to earth declined, Still thirsting for Divinity, Yet still, through sense, to Godhead blind, Poor mimic of that Truth of old, The patriarchs' hope — a faith revealed — Compressed its God in mortal mould, The prisoner of Creation's field. Nature and Nature's Lord were one ! Then countless gods from cloud and stream Glanced forth ; from sea, and moon, and sun : So ran the pantheistic dream. And thus the All-Holy, thus the All-True, The One Supreme, the Good, the Just, Like mist was scattered, lost like dew, And vanished in the wayside dust. E 3 54 MAY CAROLS. Mary ! through thee the idols fell : When He the nations longed for* came- True God yet Man — with man to dwell, The phantoms hid their heads for shame. His place or thine removed, ere long The bards would push the sects aside ; And lifted by the might of song Olympus stand re-edified. * " The Desire of the Nations." MAY CAROLS. 55 fote fttlthx XII. A broken gleam on wave and flower — A music that in utterance dies — O Poets, and O Men ! what more Is all that Beauty which ye prize ? And ah ! how oft Corruption works Through that brief Beauty's force or wile ! How oft a gloom eternal lurks Beneath an evanescent smile ! But thou, serene and smiling light Of every grace redeemed from Sense, In thee all harmonies unite That charm a pure Intelligence. Whatever teaches mind or heart To God by loveliest types to mount, Mary, is thine. Of each true Art The parent art thou, and the fount. e 4 56 MAY CAROLS. Those pictures, fair as moon or star, The ages dear to Faith brought forth, Formed but the illumined calendar Of her, that Church which knows thy worth. Not less doth Nature teach through thee That mystery hid in hues and lines : Who loves thee not hath lost the key To all her sanctuaries and shrines. MAY CAROLS. 57 Stella MMiu XIII. Shine out, O Star, and sing the praise Of that unrisen Sun whose glow Thus feeds thee with thine earlier rays — The secret of thy song we know. Thou sing'st that Sun of Righteousness, Sole light of this benighted globe, Whose beams, reflected, dressed and dress His Mother in her shining robe. Pale Lily, pearled around with dew, Lift high that heaven-illumined vase, And sing the glories ever new Of her, God's chalice, "full of grace." Cerulean Ocean, fringed with white, That wear'st her colours evermore, In all thy pureness, all thy might, Resound her name from shore to shore. That fringe of foam, when drops the sun To-night, a sanguine stain shall wear : — Thus Mary's heart had strength, alone, The passion of her Lord to share. 58 MAY CAROLS. "Ira €dL" XIV. The night through yonder cloudy cleft, With many a lingering last regard, Withdraws — but slowly — and hath left Her mantle on the dewy sward. The lawns with silver dews are strewn ; The winds lie hushed in cave and tree ; Nor stirs a flower, save one alone That bends beneath the earliest bee. Peace over all the garden broods ; Pathetic sweets the thickets throng ; Like breath the vapour o'er the woods Ascends — dim woods without a song : Or hangs, a shining, fleece-like mass O'er half yon lake that winds afar Among the forests, still as glass, The mirror of that Morning Star MAY CAROLS. 59 Which, halfway wandering from the sky, Amid the rose of morn delays And (large and less alternately) Bends down a lustrous, tearful gaze. Mother and home of spirits blest ! Bright gate of Heaven and golden bower ! Thy best of blessings, love and rest, Depart not till on earth thou shower ! 60 MAT CAROLS. XV. If sense of Man's unworthiness With Nature's blameless looks at strife, Should wake with wakening May, and press New-born contentment out of life : If thoughts of sable breed and blind Should stamp upon the springing flower, Or blacker memories haunt the mind As ravens haunt the ruined tower : — O then how sweet in heart to breathe Those pure Judean gales once more ; From Bethlehem's crib to Nazareth In heart to tread that Syrian shore ! To watch that star-like Infant bring To one of soul as clear and white May-lilies, fresh from Siloa's spring, Or Passion-flower with May-dews bright ! To follow, earlier yet, the feet Of her the " hilly land " who trod With true love's haste, intent to greet That aged saint beloved of God. Before her, like a stream let loose, The long vale's flowerage, winding, ran : Nature resumed her Eden use ; And Earth was reconciled with Man. MAT CAROLS. 61 €uu Ilostnt $ ;tttti;r. XVI. Whate'er is floral on the earth To thee, O Flower, of right belongs ; Whate'er is musical in mirth, Whate'er is jubilant in songs. Childhood and springtide never cease For him thy freshness keeps from stain : Dew-drenched for him, like Gideon's fleece, The dusty paths of life remain. Spirit of Brightness and of Bliss ! Thou threaten'st none ! A sinless lure, Thy fragrance and thy gladsomeness Draw on to Christ ; to Christ secure. Hope, Hope is Strength ! That joy of thine To us is Glory's earliest ray ! Through Faith's dim air, O star benign, Look down, and light our onward way ! 62 STAY CAROLS. Htlk lira, XVII. I left at morn that blissful shore O'er which the fruit-bloom fluttered free ; And sailed the wildering waters o'er, Till sunset streaked with blood the sea. My sleep the hoarse sea-thunders broke, And sudden chill. Their feet foam-hid, Huge cliffs leaned out, through vapour-smoke, Like tower, and tomb, and pyramid. In the black shadow, ghostly white The breaker raced o'er foaming shoals : From caverns of eternal night Came wailings, as of suffering souls. Sudden, through clearing mists, the star Of ocean o'er the billow rose : Down dropped the elemental war ; Tormented chaos found repose. MAT CAROLS. 63 Star of the ocean ! dear art thou, Ah ! not to earth and heaven alone : The suffering Church, when shines thy brow Upon her penance, stays her moan. The Holy Souls draw in their breath ; The sea of anguish rests in peace ; And, from beyond the gates of death, Up swell the anthems of release. 64 MAY CAROLS. XVIII. Blossom for ever, blossoming Rod ! Thou did'st not blossom once to die : That Life which, issuing forth from God, Thy life enkindled, runs not dry. Without a root in sin-stained earth, 'Twas thine to bud Salvation's flower. No single soul the Church brings forth But blooms from thee and is thy dower. Rejoice, O Eve! thy promise waned ; Transgression nipt thy flower with frost : But, lo ! a mother man hath gained Holier than she in Eden lost. MAY CAROLS. 65 XIX. While all the breathless woods aloof Lie hush'd in noontide's deep repose, That dove, sun-warmed on yonder roof, With what a grave content she coos ! One note for her ! Deep streams run smooth The ecstatic song of transience tells. what a depth of loving truth In thy divine contentment dwells ! All day, with down-dropt lids, I sat, In trance ; the present scene forgone. When Hesper rose, on Ararat, Methought, not English hills, he shone. Back to the ark, the waters o'er, The primal dove pursued her flight : A branch of that blest tree she bore Which feeds the Church with holy light. 1 heard her rustling through the air With sliding plume — no sound beside, Save the sea-sobbings everywhere, And sighs of that subsiding tide. 66 MAY CAROLS. ai. XX. She took the timbrel, as the tide Rushed, refluent, up the Red Sea shore : " The Lord hath triumphed," she cried : Her song rang out above the roar Of lustral waves that, wall to wall, Fell back upon the host abhorred : Above the gloomy watery pall, As eagles soar, her anthem soared. Miriam, rejoice! a mightier far Than thou, one day shall sing with thee ! Who rises, brightening like a star Above yon bright baptismal sea ? That harp which David touched who rears Heaven-high above those waters wide ? The Prophet- Queen ! Throughout all years She sings the Triumph of the Bride ! MAT CAROLS. 67 Iftstia XXL As pebbles flung for sport, that leap Along the superficial tide, But enter not those chambers deep Wherein the beds of pearl abide ; Such those light minds that, grazing, spurn The surface text of Sacred Lore, Yet ne'er its deeper sense discern, Its halls of mystery ne'er explore. Ah ! not for such the unvalued cems ; The priceless pearls of Truth they miss : Xot theirs the starry diadems That light God's temple in the abyss ! Ah ! not for such to gaze on her That moves through all that empire pale ; At every shrine doth minister, Yet never drops her vestal veil. " The letter kills." Make pure thy Will ; So shalt thou pierce the Text's disguise : Till then, revere the veil that still Hides truth from truth-affronting eyes. F 2 68 MAY CAROLS. €*|tttatio. XXII. A sweet exhaustion seems to hold In spells of calm the shrouded eve: The gorse itself a beamless gold Puts forth : — yet nothing seems to grieve. The dewy chaplets hang on air ; The willowy fields are silver-grey ; Sad odours wander here and there ; — And yet we feel that it is May. Relaxed, and with a broken flow, From dripping bowers low carols swell In mellower, glassier tones, as though They mounted through a bubbling well. The crimson orchis scarce sustains Upon its drenched and drooping spire The burden of the warm soft rains ; The purple hills grow nigh and nigher. MAY CAROLS. 69 Nature, suspending lovely toils, On expectations lovelier broods, Listening, with lifted hand, while coils The flooded rivulet through the woods. She sees, drawn out in vision clear, A world with summer radiance drest, And all the glories of that year Which sleeps within her virgin breast. F 3 MAY CAROLS. XXIII. Still on the gracious work proceeds ; — The good, great tidings preached anew Yearly to green enfranchised meads, And fire-topped woodlands flushed with dew. Yon cavern's mouth we scarce can see ; Yon rock in gathering bloom lies meshed ; And all the wood-anatomy In thickening leaves is over-fleshed. That hermit oak which frowned so long Upon the spring with barren spleen, Yields to the holy Siren's song, And bends above her goblet green. Young maples, late with gold embossed, — Lucidities of sun-pierced limes, No more surprise us — merged and lost Like prelude notes in deepening chimes. Disordered beauties and detached Demand no more a separate place : The abrupt, the startling, the unmatched, Submit to graduated grace ; AVhile upward from the ocean's marge The year ascends with statelier tread To where the sun his golden targe Finds, setting, on yon mountain's head. MAY CABOLS. 71 torn €hmwi XXIV. This scheme of worlds, which vast we call, Is only vast compared with man : Compared with God, the One yet All, Its greatness dwindles to a span. A Lily with its isles of buds Asleep on some unmeasured sea : — O God, the starry multitudes, What are they more than this to Thee ? Yet girt by Nature's petty pale Each tenant holds the place assigned To each in Being's awful scale : — The last of creatures leaves behind The abyss of nothingness : the first Into the abyss of Godhead peers ; Waiting that vision which shall burst In glory on the eternal years. f 4 72 MAY CAROLS. Tower of our Hope ! through thee we climb Finite creation's topmost stair ; Through thee from Sion's height sublime Towards God we gaze through purer air. Infinite distance still divides Created from Creative Power ; But all which intercepts and hides Lies dwarfed by that surpassing Tower ! MAY CAROLS. XXV. Who doubts that thou art finite ? Who Is ignorant that from Godhead's height To what is loftiest here below The interval is infinite ? O Mary ! with that smile thrice-blest Upon their petulance look down; — Their dull negation, cold protest — Thy smile will melt away their frown ! Show them thy Son ! That hour their heart Will beat and burn with love like thine ; Grow large ; and learn from thee that art Which communes best with things divine. The man who grasps not what is best In creaturely existence, he Is narrowest in the brain ; and least Can grasp the thought of Deity. 74 MAY CAROLS. XXVI. They seek not ; or amiss they seek ; — The cold slight heart and captious brain : — To Love alone those instincts speak Whose challenge never yet was vain. True Gate of Heaven ! As light through glass, So He who never left the sky To this low earth was pleased to pass Through thine unstained Virginity. Summed up in thee our hearts behold The glory of created things : — From His, thy Son's, corporeal mould Looks forth the eternal Kins; of Kings ! MAY CAROLS. 75 XXVII. A sudden sun-burst in the woods, But late sad Winter's palace dim ! O'er quickening boughs and bursting buds Pacific glories shoot and swim. As when some heart, grief-darkened long, Conclusive joy by force invades — So swift the new-born splendours throng ; Such lustre swallows up the shades. The sun we see not ; but his fires From stem to stem obliquely smite, Till all the forest aisle respires . The golden-tongued and myriad light. The caverns blacken as their brows With floral fire are fringed ; but all Yon sombre vault of meeting boughs Turns to a golden fleece its pall, As o'er it breeze-like music rolls. O Spring, thy limit-line is crossed! O Earth, some orb of singing Souls Brings down to thee thy Pentecost ! 76 MAY CAROLS. gonunin ftntatcs. XXVIII. Clear as those silver trumps of old That woke Judea's jubilee ; Strong as the breeze of morning, rolled O'er answering woodlands from the sea, That matutinal anthem vast Which winds, like sunrise, round the globe, Following the sunrise, far and fast, And trampling on his fiery robe. Once more the Pentecostal torch Lights on the courses of the year : The " upper chamber " of the Church Is thrilled once more with joy and fear. Who lifts her brow from out the dust ? Who fixes on a world restored A gaze like Eve's, but more august ? Who bends it heaven-ward on her Lord ? MAT CAROLS. 77 It is the Birthday of the Bride. The new begins ; the ancient ends : From all the gates of Heaven flung wide The promised Paraclete descends. He who o'er-shadowed Mary once O'ershades Humanity to-day; And bids her fruitful prove in sons Co-heritors with Christ for aye. 78 MAY CAROLS. Jomiiua f states, XXIX. The Form decreed of tree and flower, The shape susceptible of life, Without the infused vivific Power, Were but a slumber or a strife. He whom the plastic hand of God Himself created out of earth Remained a statue and a clod Till spirit infused to life gave birth. So, till that hour, the Church. In Christ Her awful structure, nerve and bone, Though built, and shaped, and organised, Existed but in skeleton ; Till down on that predestined frame, Complete through all its sacred mould, The Pentecostal Spirit came, — The self-same Spirit who of old Creative o'er the waters moved. Thenceforth the Church, made One and Whole, Arose in Him, and lived, and loved — His Temple she ; and He her Soul. MAY CAROLS. 79 feris gaiiita. XXX. The towered City loves thee well, Strong Tower of David's House ! In thee She hails the unvanquished citadel That frowns o'er Error's subject sea. With magic might that Tower repels A host that breaks where foe is none, — No foe but statued Saints in cells High-ranged, and smiling in the sun. There stands Augustin ; Leo there ; And Bernard, with a maiden face Like John's ,• and, strong at once and fair, That Spirit-Pythian, Athanase. Upon thy star- surrounded height God's angel keepeth watch and ward ; And sunrise flashes thence ere niirht Hath left dark street and dewy sward. 80 MAY CAROLS. " f u sola intcmnisti mimes tern" XXXI. What tenderest band uprears on high The standard of Incarnate God ? Successive portents that deny Her Son, who tramples ? She who trod On Satan erst with starlike scorn ! Ah ! never Alp looked down through mist As she, that whiter star of morn, Through every cloud that darkens Christ ! Roll back the centuries : — who were those That, age by age, their Lord denied ? Their seats they set with Mary's foes : — They mocked the Mother as the Bride. Of such was Arius ; and of such * He whom the Ephesian Sentence felled. f Her Title triumphed. At the touch Of Truth the insurgent rout was quelled. Back, back the hosts of Hell were driven As forth that sevenfold thunder rolled : — And in the Church's mystic Heaven There was great silence as of old. * Nestorius. f Dei-para. MAY CAROLS. PART III. MAY CAROLS. 83 PART III. I. In vain thine altars do they heap With blooms of violated May Who fail the words of Christ to keep ; Thy Son who love not, nor obey. Their songs are as a serpent's hiss ; Their praise a poniard's poisoned edge ; Their offering taints, like Judas' kiss, Thy shrine ; their vows are sacrilege. Sadly from such thy countenance turns : Thou canst not stretch thy Babe to such (Albeit for all thy pity yearns) As greet Him with a leper's touch. Who loveth thee must love thy Son. Weak Love grows strong thy smile beneath But nothing comes from nothing ; none Can reap Love's harvest out of Death. g 2 MAY CAROLS. gabnloir. ii. The watchman watched along the walls,: And lo ! an hour or more ere light Loud rang his trumpet. From their halls The revellers rushed into the night. There hung a terror on the air ; There moved a terror under ground ; — The hostile hosts, heard everywhere, Within, without — were nowhere found. " The Christians to the lions ! Ho ! "— Alas ! self-tortured crowds, let be ! Let go your wrath ; your fears let go : Ye gnaw the net, but cannot flee. Ye drank from out Orestes' cup ; Orestes' Furies drave ye wild. Who conquers from on high ? Look up ! A Woman, holding forth a Child ! MAY CAROLS. ?-3 III. The golden rains are dashed against Those verdant walls of lime and beech With which our happy vale is fenced Against the north ; yet cannot reach The stems that lift yon leafy crest High up above their dripping screen : The chestnut fans are downward pressed On banks of bluebell hid in green. White vapours float along the glen, Or rise from every sunny brake ; — A pause amid the gusts — again The warm shower sings across the lake. Sing on, all-cordial showers, and bathe The deepest root of loftiest pine ! The cowslip dimmed, the " primrose rathe " Refresh ; and drench in nectarous wine Yon fruit-tree copse, all blossomed o'er With forest-foam and crimson snow — Behold ! above it bursts once more The world-embracing, heavenly bow ! G 3 S6 MA? CAROLS. kfo% fapimtut. IV. O that the wordy war might cease ! Self-sentenced Babel's strife of tongues f Loud rings the arena. Athletes, peace ! Nor drown the wild-dove's Song of Songs. 'a "-"• """js"- Alas, the wanderers feel their loss : "With tears they seek — ah, seldom found — That peace whose volume is the Cross ; That peace which leaves not holy ground. Mary, who loves true peace loves thee ! A happy child, not taught of Scribes, He stands beside the Church's knee ; From her the lore of Christ imbibes. Hourly he drinks it from her face : For there his eyes, he knows not how, The face of Him she loves can trace, And, crowned with thorns, the sovereign brow. " Behold ! all colours blend in white ! Behold ! all Truths have root in Love ! " So sings, half lost in light of light, Her Song of Songs the mystic Dove. MAY CAROLS. 87 Sties SajMtttk v. " Wisdom hath built herself a House, And hewn her out her pillars seven." * Her wine is mixed. Her guests are those Who share the harvest-home of heaven. Who guards the gates ? The flaming sword Of Penance. Every way it turns : But healing from on high is poured On each that fire seraphic burns. The fruits upon her table piled Are gathered from the Tree of Life. Around are ranged the undented, And those that concpiered in the strife. Who tends the guests ? Who smiles away Sad memories ? bids misgiving cease ? A crowned one countenanced like the day — The Mother of the Prince of Peace. * Proverbs ix. 1. G 4 88 MAT CAROLS. VI. Hebe, in this paradise of light, Superfluous were both tree and grass : Enough to watch the sunbeams smite Yon white flower sole in the morass. From his cold nest the skylark springs ; Sings, pauses, sings ; shoots up anew ; Attains his topmost height, and sings Quiescent in his vault of blue. With eyes half-closed I watch that lake Flashed from whose plane the sun-sparks fly, Like souls new-born that shoot and break From thy deep sea, Eternity ! Ripplings of sunlight from the wave Ascend the white rock, high and higher ; Soft gurglings fill the satiate cave ; Soft airs amid the reeds expire. All round the lone and luminous meer The dark world stretches, far and free : That skylark's song alone I hear ; That flashing wave alone I see. O myriad Earth ! Where'er thy Word Makes way indeed into the soul, An answering echo there is stirred : — Of thee the part is as the whole. MAY CAROLS. 89 fcst, % ». gl h putt taick VII. Carmel,, with Alp and Apennine, Low whispers in the wind that blows Beneath the Eastern stars, ere shine The lights of morning on their snows. Of thee, Elias, Carmel speaks, And that white cloud, so small at first, Thou saw'st approach the mountain peaks To quench a dying nation's thirst. On Carmel, like a sheathed sword, Thy monks abode till Jesus came ; On Carmel then they served their Lord ; - Then Carmel rang with Mary's name. Blow over all the garden ; blow O'er all the garden of the West, Balm-breathing Orient ! Whisper low The secret of thy spicy nest. 90 MAT CAROLS. " Who from the Desert upward moves Like cloud of incense onward borne ? Who, moving, rests on Him she loves ? Who mounts from regions of the Morn ? " Behold ! The apple-tree beneath — There where of old thy Mother fell — I raised thee up. More strong than Death Is Love ; — more strong than Death or Hell."* * Caut. viii. 5. MAT CAROLS. 91 VIII. Come from the midnight, mountain tops, The mountains where the panthers play : Descend ; the veil of darkness drops ; Come fair and fairer than the day ! Our hearts are wounded with thine eyes : They character in words of light Thereon the mystery of the skies : The " Name o'er every name " they write. Come from thy Lebanonian peaks Whose sacerdotal cedars nod Above the world, when morning breaks — The Mountain of the House of God. The land thou lov'st — O well is she! The ploughers on her back may plough ; But in her vales upgrows the Tree Of Life, and biuds the bleeding brow. 92 MAY CAROLS. gtjtatata: $tatrc. IX. I saw, in visions of the night, Creation like a sea outspread, With surf of stars and storm of light And movements manifold and dread. Then lo, within a Human Hand A Sceptre moved that storm above : Thereon, as on the golden wand Of kings new-crowned, there sat a Dove. Beneath her gracious weight inclined That Sceptre drooped. The waves had rest And Sceptre, Hand, and Dove were shrined Within a glassy ocean's breast. His Will it was that placed her there ! He at whose word the tempests cease Upon that Sceptre planted fair That peace-bestowing type of Peace ! MAY CAROLS. 93 Itara frinitatis. X. Each several Saint the Church reveres, What is he but an altar whence Some separate Virtue ministers To God a separate frankincense ? Each beyond each, not made of hands, They rise, a ladder angel -trod : Star-bright the last and loftiest stands — That altar is the Throne of God. Lost in the uncreated light A Form all Human rests thereon : His shade from that surpassing height Beyond creation's verge is thrown. Him " Lord of lords, and King of kings," The chorus of all worlds proclaim : — " He took from her," one angel sings At intervals, " His Human frame." 94 MAY CAROLS. tifottns Smtonm. XL He seemed to linger with them vet: But late ascended to the skies, They saw — ah, how could they forget? — The form they loved, the hands, the eyes. From anchored boat — in lane or field — He taught ; He blessed, and brake the bread ; The hungry filled ; the afflicted healed ; And wept, ere yet he raised, the dead. But when, like some supreme of hills, Whose feet shut out its summit's snow, That, hid no longer, heavenward swells As further from its base we go, Abroad His perfect Godhead shone, Each hour more plainly kenned on high, And clothed His Manhood with the sun, And, cleansing, hurt the adoring eye ; MAY CAROLS. 95 Then fixed His Church a deepening gaze Upoh His Saints. With Him they sate, And, burning in that Godhead's blaze, They seemed that Manhood to dilate. His were they : of His likeness each Had grace some fragment to present, And nearer brought to mortal reach Of Him some line or lineament. 96 MAY CAROLS. f est S. §. a. XII. Fall back, all worlds, into the abyss, That man may contemplate once more That which He ever was Who is : — The Eternal Essence we adore. Angelic hierarchies ! recede Beyond extinct creation's shade ! What were ye at the first ? Decreed : — Decreed, not fashioned ; thought, not made ! Like wind the untold Millenniums passed. Sole-throned He sat ; yet not alone : Godhead in Godhead still was glassed ; — The Spirit was breathed from Sire and Son. Prime Virgin, separate and sealed ; Nor less of social love the root ; Dimly in lowliest shapes revealed; Entire in every Attribute ; — MAY CAROLS. 97 Thou liv'st in all things, and around ; To Thee external is there nought ; Thou of the boundless art the bound ; And still Creation is Thy Thought. In vain, O God, our wings we spread ; So distant art Thou — yet so nigh. Remains but this, when all is said, For Thee to live ; in Thee to die. 98 MAY CAROLS. XIII. Where is the crocus now, that first, When earth was dark and heaven was grey, A prothalamion flash, up-burst ? Ah, then we deemed not of the May ! The clear stream stagnates in its course ; Narcissus droops in pallid gloom ; Far off the hills of golden gorse A dusk Saturnian face assume. The seeded dandelion dim Casts loose its air-globe on the breeze ; Along the grass the swallows skim ; The cattle couch among the trees. Yet ever lordlier loveliness Succeeds to that which slips our hold : The thorn assumes her snowy dress ; Laburnum bowers their robes of gold. Down waves successive of the year We drop ; but drop once more to rise, With ampler view, as on we steer, Of lovelier lights and loftier skies. MAY CAROLS. 99 "S& $M'' XIV. Before the morn began to break The bright One bent above that pair Whose childless vows aspired to take The mother of their Lord for heir. 'Twas August : even in midnight shade The roofs were hot, and hot the street : — " Build me a fane," the vision said, " Where first your eyes the snow shall meet." * With snow the Esquiline was strewn At morn ! — Fair Legend! who but thinks Of thee, when first the breezes blown From summer Alp to Alp he drinks ? He stands : he hears the torrents dash : Slowly the vapours break ; and lo ! Through chasms of endless azure flash The peaks of everlasting snow. * Santa Maria Maggiore, on the Esquiline, at Rome. H 2 100 MAT CAROLS. He stands ; he listens ; on his ear Swells softly forth some virgin hymn : The white procession windeth near, With glimmering lights in sunshine dim. Mother of Purity and Peace ! They sing the Saviour's name and thine Clothe them for ever with the fleece Unspotted of thy Lamb Divine ! MAY CAROLS. 101 $t$t. Jnritatis. XV. Far down the bird may sing of love ; The honey-bearing blossom blow : But hail, ye hills that rise above The limit of perpetual snow ! O Alpine City, with thy walls Of rock eterne and spires of ice, Where torrent still to torrent calls, And precipice to precipice ; — How like that holier City thou, The heavenly Salem's earthly porch, Which rears among the stars her brow, And plants firm feet on earth — the Church I " Decaying, ne'er to be decayed," Her woods, like thine, renew their youth : Her streams, in rocky arms embayed, Are clear as virtue, strong as truth, n 3 102 MAT CAROLS. At times the lake may burst its dam ; Black pine and rock the valley strew ; But o'er the ruin soon the lamb Its flowery pasture crops anew. She, too, in regions near the sky Up-piles her cloistered snows, and thence Diffuses gales of purity O'er fields of consecrated sense. On those still heights a love-light glows The plains from them alone receive ; — Not all the Lily ! There thy Rose, O Mary, triumphs, morn and eve ! MAY CAROLS. 103 XVI. Cloud-piercing Mountains ! Chance and Change More high than you their thrones advance. Self- vanquished Nature's rockiest range Gives way before them like the trance Of one that wakes. From morn to eve Through fissured clefts her mists make way ; At Night's cold touch they freeze, and cleave Her crags ; and, with a Titan's sway, Flake off and peel the rotting rocks, And heap the glacier tide below With isles of sand and floating blocks, As leaves on streams when tempests blow. Lo, thus the great decree all-just, O Earth, thy mountains hear ; and learn From fire and frost its import — " dust Thou art ; and shalt to dust return." He only is Who ever was ; The All-measuring Mind ; the Will Supreme. Rocks, mountains, worlds, like bubbles pass : God is ; the things not God but seem. u 4 104 MAT CAROLS. Icckris %xm. XVII. From end to end, O God, Thy Will With swift yet ordered might doth reach : Thy purposes their scope fulfil In sequence, resting each on each. In Thee is nothing sudden ; nought From harmony and law that swerves : The orbits of Thine act and thought In soft succession wind their curves. O then with what a gradual care Must thou have shaped that sacred shrine, That Ark of grace, ordained to bear The burthen of the Babe divine! How many a gift within her breast Lay stored, for Him a couch to strew ! How many a virtue lined His nest ! How many a grace beside Him grew ! Of love on love what sweet excess ! How deep a faith ! a hope how high .' — Mary ! on earth of thee we guess ; But we shall see thee when we die ! MAY CAROLS. 105 \amm Star, XVIII. She mused upon the Saints of old ; Their toils, their pains, she longed to share : Of Him she mused, the Child foretold ; To Him her hands she stretched in prayer. No moment passed without its crown ; And each new grace was used so well It drew some tenfold talent down, Some miracle on miracle. O golden House ! O boundless store Of wealth by heavenly commerce won ! When God Himself could give no more, He gave thee all ; He gave His Son ! Blessed the Mother of her Lord ! And yet for this more blessed still, Because she heard and kept His Word — High servant of His sovereign Will ! 106 MAY CAROLS. gospcvit f unulitatciiL XIX Not all thy purity, although The whitest moon that ever lit The peaks of Lebanonian snow Shone dusk and dim compared with it; — Not that great love of thine, whose beams Transcended in their virtuous heat Those suns which melt the ice-bound streams, And make earth's pulses newly beat : — It was not these that from the sky Drew down to thee the Eternal Word : He looked on thy humility ; He knew thee, " Handmaid of thy Lord." Let no one claim with thee a part ; Let no one, Mary, name thy name, While, aping God, upon his heart Pride sits, a demon robed in flame. Proud Vices, die ! Where Sin has place Be Sin's familiar self-disgust. Proud Virtues, doubly die ; that Grace At last may burgeon from your dust. MAY CAROLS. 107 gespit jjmnilitotcm. xx. Supreme among the things create Omnipotence revealed below, More swift than thought, more strong than fate, Such, such, Humility, art thou ! All strength beside is weakness. Might Belongs to God : and they alone, Self-emptied souls and seeming-slight, Are filled with God and share his throne. O Mary ! strong wert thou and meek ; Thy meekness gave thee strength divine Thyself in nothing didst thou seek ; Therefore thy Maker made Him thine. Through Pride our parents disobeyed ; Rebellious Sense avenged the crime : The soul, the body's captive made, Became the branded thrall of time. 108 MAY CAROLS. With barrenness the earth was cursed ; Inviolate she brought forth no more Her fruits, nor freely as at first : — Thou cam'st, her Eden to restore ! Low breathes the wind upon the string ; The harp, responsive, sounds in turn : Thus o'er thy Soul the Spirit's wing Creative passed ; and Christ was born. MAY CAROLS. 109 "Sine fak mtyxmli €mttyh." XXI. Met in a point * the circles twain Of temporal and eternal things Embrace, close linked. Redemption's chain Drops thence to earth its myriad rings, In either circle, from of old, That point of meeting stood decreed ; — Twin mysteries cast in one deep moidd, " The Woman," and "the Woman's Seed." Mary, long ages ere thy birth Resplendent with Salvation's Sign, In thee a stainless hand the earth Put forth, to meet the Hand Divine ! First trophy of all-conquering Grace, First victory of that Blood all pure, Of man's once fair but fallen race Thou stood'st, the monument secure. The Word made Flesh ! the Way ! the Door ! The link that dust with Godhead blends ! Through Him the worlds their God adore : — Through thee that God to man descends. * The Incarnation. 110 MAY CAROLS. "Sine fabc jorigtnalt tfmjte." XXII. A soul-like sound, subdued yet strong, A whispered music, mystery-rife, A sound like Eden airs among The branches of the Tree of Life — At first no more than this ; at last The voice of every land and clime, It swept o'er Earth, a clarion blast : Earth heard, and shook with joy sublime. Mary ! thy triumph was her own. In thee she saw her prime restored : She saw ascend a spotless Throne For Him, her Saviour, and her Lord. The Church had spoken. She that dwells Sun-clad with beatific light, From Truth's unvanquished citadels, From Sion's Apostolic height, Had stretched her sceptred hands, and pressed The seal of Faith, defined and known, Upon that Truth till then confessed By Love's instinctive sense alone. MAY CAROLS. HI XXIII. Brow-bound with myrtle and with gold, Spring, sacred now from blasts and blights, Lifts in a firm, untrembling hold Her chalice of fulfilled delights. Confirmed around her queenly lip The smile late wavering, on she moves ; And seems through deepening tides to step Of steadier joys and larger loves. The stony Ash itself relents, Into the blue embrace of May Sinking, like old impenitents Heart-touched at last ; and, far away, The long wave yearns along the coast With sob suppressed, like that which thrills (While o'er the altar mounts the Host) Some chapel on the Irish hills. 112 MAY CAROLS. tops CIrasiL XXIV. Rejoice, O Mary ! and be glad, Thou Church triumphant here below ! He cometh, in meekest emblems clad ; Himself he cometh to bestow ! That body which thou gav'st, O Earth, He giveth back — that Flesh, that Blood ; Born of the Altar's mystic birth ; At once thy "Worship and thy Food. He who of old on Calvary bled On all thine altars lies to-day, A bloodless Sacrifice, but dread ; • The Lamb in heaven adored for aye. His Godhead on the Cross He veiled ; His Manhood here He veileth too : But Faith has eagle eyes unsealed ; And Love to Him she loves is true. MAT CAROLS. 113 " I will not leave you orphans. Lo ! While lasts the world with you am I." Saviour ! we see Thee not ; but know, With burning hearts, that Thou art nigh ! He conies ! Blue Heaven, thine incense breathe O'er all the consecrated sod ; And thou, O Earth, with flowers enwreathe The steps of thine advancing God ! 114 MAY CATCOLS. Corps CkistL XXV. What music swells on every gale ? What heavenly Herald rideth past ? Vale sings to vale, " He comes ; all hail ! " Sea sighs to sea, " He comes at last." The Earth bursts forth in choral song ; Aloft her " Lauda Sion " soars ; Her myrtle boughs at once are flung Before a thousand Minster doors. Far on the white processions wind Through wood and plain and street and court The kings and prelates pace behind The King of kings in seemly sort. The incense floats on Grecian air ; Old Carmel echoes back the chant ; In every breeze the torches flare That curls the waves of the Levant. On Ramah's plain — in Bethlehem's bound — Is heard to-day a gladsome voice : " Rejoice," it cries, " the lost is found ! With Mary's joy, Earth, rejoice ! " MAY CAKOLS. 115 XXVI. Pleasant the swarm about the bough ; The meadow-whisper round the woods ; And for their coolness pleasant now The murmur of the falling floods. Pleasant beneath the thorn to lie, And let a summer fancy loose ; To hear the cuckoo's double cry ; To make the noon-tide sloth's excuse. Panting, but pleased, the cattle stand Knee-deep in water-weed and sedge, And scarcely crop the greener band Of osiers round the river's edge. But hark ! Far off the south wind sweeps The golden-foliaged groves among, Renewed or lulled, with rests and leaps — Ah ! how it makes the spirit long To drop its earthly weight, and drift Like yon white cloud, on pinions free, Beyond that mountain's purple rift, And o'er that scintillating sea ! I 2 116 MAY CAROLS. XXVII. Sing on, wide winds, your anthems vast ! The ear is richer than the eye : Upon the eye no shape can cast Such impress of Infinity. And thou, my soul, thy wings of might Put forth : — thou too, one day shalt soar, And, onward borne in heavenward flight, The starry universe explore ; Breasting that breeze which waves the bowers Of Heaven's bright forest never mute, Whereof perchance this earth of ours Is but the feeblest forest-fruit. " The Spirit bloweth where He wills" — O Effluence of that Life Divine Which wakes the Universe, and stills, In Thy strong refluence make us Thine ! MAY CAROLS. 117 Cceli warrant XXVIII. Sole Maker of the Worlds ! They lay A barren blank, a void, a nought, Beyond the ken of solar ray Or reach of archangelic thought. - Thou spak'st ; and they were made ! Forth sprang From every region of the abyss, Whose deeps, fire-clov'n, with anthems rang, The spheres new-born and numberless. Thou spak'st : — upon the winds were found The astonished Eagles. Awed and hushed Subsiding seas revered their bound ; And the strong forests upward rushed. Before the Vision angels fell, As though the face of God they saw ; And all the panting miracle Found rest within the arms of Law. i 3 118 MAY CAROLS. Perfect, O God, Thy primal plan — That scheme frost-bound by Adam's sin : Create, within the heart of Man, Worlds meet for Thee ; and dwell therein. From Thy bright realm of Sense and Nature, Which flowers enwreathe and stars begem, Shape Thou Thy Church ; the crowned Creature ; The Bride ; the New Jerusalem ! 5IAY CAROLS. 119 . D. Heath, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cam- bridge. 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