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 THE LIBRARY 
 
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 ST. JOHN BAPTIST'S, OXFORD, 
 
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 PRIVILEGES OF YEARS. 
 
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 CONTENTS 
 
 OMINE, Refugium 
 Morning Hymn 
 Evening Hymn 
 Easter Communion 
 Christmas Communion 
 Eucharistic Comfort 
 At the Holy Eucharist . 
 " We have an Altar " . 
 After Communion 
 "Ye are come unto Mount Sion" 
 The Sympathies of Christ 
 " Ubi Charitas et Amor " 
 Hymn for the Close of a Service 
 Hymn before a Journey 
 
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 Hymn for Passion-tide 
 Hymn for Michaelmas . 
 Hymn for a Martyr's Day 
 An Intercession 
 Acts of Prayer 
 
 Temptation .... 
 Penitence .... 
 Prayer after Pardon 
 Tribulation and Wealth 
 Patience .... 
 Thankfulness 
 A Perfect Heart . 
 
 Zeal 
 
 Hiding from God 
 
 The Corner Stone, a Stumbling St 
 
 St. Martin's Vision 
 
 Secular Opinion 
 
 The Greatness of Common Life 
 
 Hell 
 
 Antichrist .... 
 
 The Atonement 
 
 The Priesthood 
 
 The Evening Absolution 
 
 Ritual 
 
 St. Tudno's .... 
 
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 , PAGE 
 
 The " Angelus " at Lucerne 128 
 
 St. Gervais, Rouen 
 
 
 
 
 
 133 
 
 The Scilhtan Martyrs . 
 
 
 
 
 
 139 
 
 The Vision of Saturus . 
 
 
 
 
 
 145 
 
 St. Fructuosus 
 
 
 
 
 
 149 
 
 Theodore of Antioch 
 
 
 
 
 
 156 
 
 The Battle of Varna 
 
 
 
 
 
 162 
 
 A Tradition of Culloden 
 
 
 
 
 
 167 
 
 Louis the Seventeenth . 
 
 
 
 
 
 170 
 
 The Odyssey, L i — 95 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 177
 
 ERRATA. 
 
 Page 121, line 15, erase the hyphen. 
 
 „ 123, transpose ; and , at the end of the third 
 
 and fourth hnes of the last stanza. 
 „ 165, last line but one, for ' aid' read ' aid?' 
 
 And all hollow faiths to nought ; 
 O what doubts, what drear negations, 
 
 Straightway 'neath our feet are trod, 
 When we answer with our Credo 
 
 In a true and living God !
 
 IBominc, li^efugium* 
 
 HOU hast been, Thou art our Refuge, 
 When this day of surging thought 
 Brings all sanctities to question, 
 
 And all hollow faiths to nought ; 
 O what doubts, what drear negations, 
 Straightway 'neath our feet are trod. 
 When we answer with our Credo 
 In a true and living God ! 
 
 B
 
 DOMINE, REFUGIUM. 
 
 Not a name for boundless Nature, 
 
 Not a blind mechanic Cause, 
 Not a sum of vital forces, 
 
 Not a slave of iron laws ; 
 Not an abdicated Ruler, 
 
 Who could once a world create, 
 Then leave all His will had fashioned 
 
 To a self-evolving fate : 
 
 But a God that acts and governs, 
 
 Now, as on Creation's day ; 
 I^ove's most special care combining 
 
 'With His widest general sway ; 
 One whose grand continuous fiat 
 
 Every moment props the spheres, 
 One who bends His whole omniscience 
 
 On each new-made orphan's tears.
 
 DOMINE, REFUGIUM. 
 
 Yes — a real Guide and Father, 
 
 Yes — a real Judge and Lord ; 
 Whose perpetual moral presence 
 
 Round our deepest life is poured ; 
 One who verily can love us, 
 
 Hear our cry, and make us blest ; 
 Who ordains His deepest witness 
 
 In the voice within our breast. 
 
 But full surely He would give us 
 
 Clearer tokens of His will, 
 And our need to touch Him closer 
 
 He would, Father-like, fulfil : 
 So to powers and laws transcendent 
 
 Nature's outward course might yield, 
 And our own God shine before us, 
 
 In His wealth of grace revealed. 
 
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 DOMINE, REFUGIUM. 
 
 Therefore men that read the story 
 
 Of the Manger and the Rood, 
 Well may greet the only Gospel 
 
 Straight from Him, the only Good 
 Heart and mind go forth to meet it, 
 
 This is light, or light is none, 
 To believe in God the Father 
 
 And in Jesus Christ His Son. 
 
 This is light ;— where dimness lingers. 
 
 Faith can wait till shadows flee ; 
 And Life's riddles less perplex us 
 
 When the Truth has made us free ; 
 Yea, the Truth and Light Incarnate — 
 
 For if Christ we truly scan, 
 Him we trust in we must worship. 
 
 Word made Flesh, and God made Man.
 
 DOMINE, REFUGIUM. 
 
 Nought but this, the Uving fuhiess 
 
 Of His own Emmanuel Name, 
 Links His human truth and pureness 
 
 With the splendours of His claim ; 
 He that took His sovereign station 
 
 Where no Angel durst come nigh. 
 Would be neither Saint nor Prophet 
 
 Were He less than God most high. 
 
 But we know Thee, O good Jesus ! 
 
 And Thy words are life indeed ; 
 And Thine own all-glorious Person 
 
 Gives coherence to our Creed : 
 Strong in that majestic oneness, 
 
 Each high doctrine holds its place ; 
 Each a ground of holy action 
 
 And a pledge of constant grace.
 
 DOMINE, REFUGIUM. 
 
 Take then, Lord, our prostrate worship, 
 
 Take our best of thanks and praise, 
 For the dear, dear love that keeps us 
 
 From the doubter's woeful ways ; 
 Though the strife of tongues be with us, 
 
 On our thoughts imprint Thy sign ; 
 Till all questions find their answer 
 
 In that life where all is Thine.
 
 ifHonting ?^Bmn. 
 
 O thank Thee, Lord, for this new morn 
 We come before Thy face ; 
 Make Thou the hours till eventide 
 A perfect day of grace. 
 
 We know, to bless our common life, 
 
 Thou hast a precept given, 
 That we, redeemed, should walk on earth 
 
 As citizens of heaven.
 
 MORNING HYMN. 
 
 But, Father ! well Thou know'st that oft 
 AVe find the world too strong ; 
 
 'Hiat powers at deadly war with Faith 
 Around our pathway throng. 
 
 When things of sense their claim assert 
 
 \\\\\\ such a royal mien, 
 'Tis hard to keep all homage back 
 
 For majesties unseen. 
 
 Men feel no awe for verities 
 Whose voice is soft and still ; 
 
 They thrust aside the realm of Grace- 
 It lets them have their will 
 
 Self-hardened towards diviner things, 
 Each day they own them less ; 
 
 While through their being steals the plague 
 Of utter worldliness.
 
 MORNING HYMN. 
 
 O keep us, Lord, from such a doom ! 
 
 O grant us power and love 
 What hes before us here to do. 
 
 But fix our hearts above. 
 
 Amid the transient, make us true 
 To that which knows no end ; 
 
 Let holy thoughts and acts of faith 
 With earthly business blend : 
 
 So shall the beauty of our God * 
 Beam o'er us all the day ; 
 
 And this poor handiwork be rich 
 In fruits that ne'er decay. 
 
 * Ps. xc. 17.
 
 ©bcning ?i?i)mn. 
 
 GOD, in this calm eventide 
 Let two great thoughts with us abide ; 
 How dust shall unto dust return, 
 And how Thy love doth o'er us yearn. 
 
 The days of man are but as grass ; 
 They spring, they flourish, and they pass ; 
 But to the faithful and the pure 
 Thy mercy stands for ever sure.
 
 E VENING HYMN. 1 1 
 
 O joy for them ! they well may brook 
 With fearless eyes on death to look ; 
 Their spirit makes its firm abode 
 In that paternal heart of God. 
 
 Enthroned in all-sufficing rest, 
 He still desires to see us blest ; 
 As mother comforts darling son *, 
 So bends He o'er us, one by one. 
 
 Full oft this day His pardon sweet 
 Has sped from far, some child to meet ; 
 Has welcomed home the lost and found, 
 And made His Heaven with joy resound. 
 
 Thy power, O Lord, reveals Thee less 
 Than glimpses of Thy tenderness ; 
 
 * Isa. Ixvi. 13.
 
 12 
 
 EVENING HYMN. 
 
 And we, though here we know in part, 
 May write " He loves me " on our heart. 
 
 So pass we on from day to day, 
 With strength to work and will to pray, 
 And two things certain — We must die, 
 And — Thou wouldst have us live on high.
 
 ©aster Communion*. 
 
 HOU that on the first of Easters 
 Cam'st resplendent from the tomb, 
 Leaving all Thy linen cerements 
 Folded in the cavern's gloom, 
 Come with Thine "All hail " to greet us, 
 
 Come our Paschal joy to be ; 
 Let our Altar, clad in brightness, 
 Yield a throne of white for Thee. 
 
 * Reprinted in substance from the " Lyra Eucharistlca," edited 
 by the Rev. O. Shipley.
 
 14 EASTER COMMUNION. 
 
 This shall crown the Queen of Sundays ; 
 
 Grant but this, our cup runs o'er ; 
 Peal on peal of Alleluias 
 
 Makes us long for this the more. 
 Faces bright with Easter gladness 
 
 Yet their joy's perfection crave 
 In the glorious Paschal banquet 
 
 Of the King that spoiled the" grave. 
 
 Thou whose all-transcendent Manhood 
 Knew not aught of bonds imposed, 
 Rising ere the stone was lifted. 
 
 Passing where the doors were closed ; 
 Thou whose name is still the Wondrous, 
 
 Is there aught too hard for Thee ? 
 Let Thy dread and blissful Presence 
 
 From our evils make us free.
 
 EASTER COMMUNION. 15 
 
 
 
 Agnus Dei ! we are guilty ; 
 
 Panis Vitae ! we are faint ; 
 But Thou didst not rise at Easter 
 
 To be deaf to our complaint. 
 Come, O come to cleanse and feed us, 
 
 Breathing peace and kindling love, 
 Till Thy Paschal blessings bear us 
 
 To the Feast of feasts above.
 
 Cirttistmas arommumon*. 
 
 T last Thou art come ! and the dew of 
 Thy birth 
 
 Is the fragrance of heaven to Thy pilgrims on earth ; 
 All life at Thy coming grows radiant and sweet, 
 And our very hearts' homage we lay at Thy feet ; 
 Though worthless our best, let us do what we can 
 To welcome Thy birthday, true God and true Man. 
 
 O light to our eyes, and O life to our heart, 
 Can words ever tell what a Saviour Thou art. 
 Who to ransom our souls, and to fill us with good. 
 Didst stoop to the Manger, the Garden, the Rood ? 
 
 * Reprinted from the " Lyra Eucharistica."
 
 CHRISTMAS COMMUNION. 17 
 
 Take our thanks unexpressed, while adoring we fall 
 In Thine own very Presence, our God and our All. 
 
 For us Thou wast born, Thou didst die, Thou dost 
 
 live ; 
 Our praise Thou canst perfect, our sin canst forgive ; 
 That want lies the deepest ; 'tis mercy we need, 
 And the souls Thouabsolvest keep Christmas indeed : 
 Let the touch of Thy Manhood our cleansing renew, 
 And Thy deep Heart of love to itself make us true. 
 
 When in hearts that once hailed Thee the gladness 
 
 dies out, 
 When lips that adored Thee now question and doubt, 
 When they half deem it gain from Thy yoke to be 
 
 free, 
 O grant us to cleave all the closer to Thee \ 
 That if others draw back, we may do what we can 
 To live for Thy service, true God and true Man. 
 
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 (Jfucijaristtc alomfort*. 
 
 AWFUL might of Grace Divine, 
 That can our shallow thoughts reprove, 
 And in the simplest forms enshrine 
 
 Such heights and depths and worlds of love ! 
 Yea, all God's mercies earthward sent 
 Are in the Blessed Sacrament. 
 
 For we have all, if we have Thee, 
 
 Who giv'st us here Thy Flesh and Blood, 
 
 And giv'st us faith withal to see 
 That miracle of ghostly food ; 
 
 * Reprinted from the "Lyra Eucharistica."
 
 EUCHARISTIC COMFORT. 19 
 
 To her keen eyes the veil is rent 
 That shrouds the Blessed Sacrament. 
 
 With her we lift our hearts on high, 
 By self condemned, by God forgiven ; 
 
 With her to Jesus we draw nigh. 
 
 And stretch our hands for Bread from heaven ; 
 
 No more in sin's foul dungeon pent, 
 
 We touch the Blessed Sacrament. 
 
 " It is the Lord !" no thought but this 
 
 Can compass all our wondrous gain \ 
 " It is the Lord," our Life, our Bliss, 
 
 Who died, who lives to plead and reign, 
 And whose vast love has fullest vent 
 In this most Blessed Sacrament. 
 
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 at t^e ii?olp (SntUtist 
 
 ORD, we bid Thee welcome, 
 Filled with love and awe ; 
 Though the heavens contain Thee 
 
 After nature's law, 
 Yet, as all the faithful 
 
 Share that Heart of Thine, 
 So Thy Body findeth 
 Here a mystic shrine. 
 
 Take our worthless homage, 
 O Thou Prince of Peace ; 
 
 In this boon transcendent 
 Still otir faith increase ;
 
 A T THE HOLY EUCHARIST. 21 
 
 May our lips confess it 
 Till our latest breath, 
 May it light our passage 
 
 Through the gates of death. 
 
 Here, although we see not, 
 
 Yet we trust Thy word ; 
 But the full fruition — 
 
 Grant it, grant it. Lord * ! 
 O to gaze upon Thee 
 
 Without a veil like this, 
 When to see Thy glory 
 
 Shall be all our bliss ! 
 
 * See the Rhythmus of Aquinas.
 
 *'51ffile i^abc an ^Itar." 
 
 NCE, only once, and once for all, 
 
 His precious life He gave ; 
 Before the Cross our spirits fall. 
 And own it strong to save. 
 
 " One Oflfering, single and complete," 
 With lips and heart we say ; 
 
 But what He never can repeat, 
 He shows forth day by day. 
 
 For as the priest of Aaron's line 
 
 Within the Holiest stood, 
 And sprinkled all the Mercy-shrine 
 
 With sacrificial blood;
 
 " IVE HA VE AN ALTARP 23 
 
 Our Priest and Victim, adding nought * 
 
 To His Atonement's power, 
 Presents Himself t for those He bought 
 
 In that dark noontide hour. 
 
 So pleads the Flesh that died and lives, 
 
 On Heaven's eternal throne. 
 And where in mystic rite He gives 
 
 Its Presence to His own. 
 
 And so we show Thy Death, O Lord, 
 
 Till Thou again appear ; 
 And feel, when we approach Thy board, 
 
 We have an Altar here. 
 
 * See Dr. Pusey on Truth and Office of English Church, p. 
 ■j- Heb. k. 24.
 
 :aftft Citominunion *. 
 
 HIS is the Feast that pleaseth Thee, O 
 Lord ; 
 
 This is the Feast that Thou didst leave behind 
 For orphaned ones, in token of Thy love. 
 O Wisdom of the Father, Virgin-born, 
 O Thou who hast not deemed it too much grace 
 To let a worthless sinner touch and take 
 Thy sacred, precious Body ; what reward 
 For all Thy bounties can I give to Thee 1 
 For if the holy deeds of all the world 
 Were heaped together, they would show as nought 
 Beside Thy gracious goodness. Therefore now 
 
 * From an Ambroslan Missal of a.d. 1522.
 
 AFTER COMMUNION. 25 
 
 I thank Thee, King of kings, and Lord of lords, 
 
 Son of the hving God, — Lord Jesus Christ, 
 
 And far as these weak powers of mine can reach, 
 
 I render thanks to Thy dread majesty 
 
 And kindness infinite, O kindest Lord, 
 
 Who sweetly hast refreshed my dried-up soul 
 
 With Thy most holy Body and Thy Blood. 
 
 I pray Thee, Lord, that what in me is found 
 
 Faulty, and running counter to Thy will, 
 
 May wholly be uprooted, and my heart 
 
 Prepared to be the Spirit's meet abode. 
 
 And grant that this Communion, dearest Lord, 
 
 May to my soul be sweetness and delight, 
 
 In persecution and adversity 
 
 Be safety and protection, peace and joy 
 
 In trouble and temptation, light and strength 
 
 In every word and work, and confidence, 
 
 Comfort, and final tutelage, in death.
 
 it 
 
 ^t are come unto IHount 5ion.** 
 
 HEN Heaven's high doors were lifted up, 
 And, bright wiih many a royal crown *, 
 The Flesh that drained the Passion-cup 
 
 In majesty of God sat down, 
 Then, then, O miracle of love ! 
 
 The gulf was bridged, the bars were riven, 
 And things below met things above, 
 
 And earth was clasped in arms of Heaven. 
 
 So now to our true Sion height 
 
 We in this mortal life are come ; 
 E'en now we hail, by faith's pure light, 
 
 The many mansions of our home : 
 
 * Rev. xix. 12.
 
 " YE ARE COME UNTO MOUNT SION:' 27 
 
 E'en now, ere dust returns to dust, 
 That far-spread host of Angel powers, 
 
 That concourse of the first-born just, 
 In Christ, the Head of all, are ours. 
 
 If thus of old the Spirit taught. 
 
 If thus we sing in daily Creed, 
 Then who from heaven hath tidings brought 
 
 That Saints can take of us no heed ; 
 That sympathies are quenched and chilled 
 
 In souls from touch of sin set free, 
 In harboured ones that prayer is stilled 
 
 For brethren tossed on this world's sea % 
 
 No — while the Lamb that once was slain 
 Stands forth to take our sins away, 
 
 One impulse thrills the ransomed train, 
 O doubt it not ! through Him they pray :
 
 28 " YE ARE COME UNTO MOUNT SION:' 
 
 Like one that runs and never faints, 
 Borne up by strength beyond his own, 
 
 That fervent charity of Saints 
 
 With eagle flight surrounds the throne. 
 
 Strong love, that stirs the bowers of rest ! 
 
 New partners of their joy they crave ; 
 " Bring all, O Father, to Thy breast. 
 
 Yon struggling Church uphold and save." 
 From Mary Mother in her bliss 
 
 To Saints whose white is newly worn, 
 All strive with eager cry like this 
 
 To speed Thy work, O Virgin-bom ! 
 
 Ah, dearest Lord — ah, sacred Heart ! 
 
 Thine, first and last, the work must be ; 
 None else therein can claim a part, 
 
 For none has borne our sin save Thee.
 
 " V£ ARE COME UNTO MOUNT SION^ 29 
 
 Alas, that Christian hearts should e'er 
 Keep Christ at distance in their need, 
 
 Or all His servants' love compare 
 
 With that which made the Five Wounds bleed I 
 
 Therefore to Thee our prayer goes up, 
 
 Therefore to Thee our heart is given ; 
 For Thou alone didst drink the cup, 
 
 And Thou art man's High Priest in heaven 
 In fellowship with friends above 
 
 O make us tread their upward way, 
 Till simply, solely through Thy love. 
 
 We stand beside them on that Day !
 
 ^f)e £j)mpatf)tes{ of (Jrf)rii3t. 
 
 iJNE Person in two Natures, — God and 
 Man ;" 
 
 On this high rock Thy Church's feet are set ; 
 So at Chalcedon her confession ran, 
 And so she owns Thee yet. 
 
 But oft the mind, in this our pilgrim state, 
 Truth in two aspects can but dimly see ; 
 
 And in our weakness oft we separate 
 What thus are joined in Thee.
 
 THE SYMPATHIES OF CHRIST. 31 
 
 So, knowing all God's worship to be Thine, 
 
 We strain our souls to praise Thee, Light of Light ! 
 
 But Thou art not less human than Divine, 
 Thy Manhood claims its right. 
 
 We say, "He searcheth all things — through and 
 through 
 
 Scans what arose from nothing at His call ; 
 Therefore He knows our sorrows." True, O true \ 
 
 But, Brother ! is that all % 
 
 Thou took' St on Thee this flesh and soul of ours ; 
 
 And they, by that assumption glorified, 
 And now enriched with yet sublimer powers, 
 
 For ever Thine abide. 
 
 And therefore, O most merciful High Priest ! 
 
 Thy human Heart is strong to sympathize 
 At once with all Thy chiefest and Thy least ; 
 
 All meet those pitying eyes.
 
 32 THE SYMPATHIES OF CHRIST. 
 
 All claim alike the fulness of Thy care, 
 That rests on all as each, on each as all ; 
 
 The world-wide Church — a little one at prayer — 
 A village bier and pall ; 
 
 Watchers that strive for hope when hope is none ; 
 
 Spirits worn out with lonely grief or pain ; 
 Each tearful mother pleading for the son 
 
 She ne'er may greet again ; 
 
 The faithful met to share the Sacrifice ; 
 
 Pastors in toil, and minds oppressed with doubt ; 
 Wanderers that groan, " I will, I will arise. 
 
 He will not cast me out ;" 
 
 All these, and every soul Thy Blood has bought, 
 May find in Thee a perfect human Friend ; 
 
 To each the vastness of Thy human thought 
 Doth full attention bend.
 
 THE SYMPATHIES OF CHRIST. 33 
 
 And as Thy Flesh is ne'er bestowed in part, 
 So comes entirely, simply, as a whole, 
 
 This real Presence of Thy mind and heart 
 To each believing soul. 
 
 So let us welcome this surpassing grace. 
 This wondrous fruit of Incarnation's tree ; 
 
 Spring forth to meet Thy brotherly embrace, 
 And yield our hearts to Thee. 
 
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 '^Bii artatitas tt ^mor*. 
 
 * >> 
 
 HERE is Love's abode, 
 There we find our God. 
 One and all for love of Christ assembling, 
 Let us find in Christ our joyous cheer ; 
 Serve the living God with love and trembling, 
 To our brethren cleave with hearts sincere. 
 Where is Love's abode, 
 There we find our God. 
 
 * From the Roman office for washing the feet on Maundy 
 Thursday.
 
 " UBI CHARITAS ET AMOR:' 35 
 
 So when thus as brothers we are meeting, 
 
 Take we heed that nought our souls divide 5 
 Sounds of strife and malice far be fleeting, 
 So shall Christ our God with us abide. 
 Where is Love's abode, 
 There we find our God. 
 
 So 'mid all Thy Saints with exultation, 
 
 Christ our God, Thy Face may we behold ; 
 O the pure joy, passing estimation, 
 
 Through the life that endless years unfold ! 
 Where is Love's abode. 
 There we find our God. 
 
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 ]£timn for tf)e Otiose of a Serbicf. 
 
 ND now the wants are told, that brought 
 Thy children to Thy knee ; 
 Here lingering still, we ask for nought, 
 But simply worship Thee. 
 
 The hope of Heaven's eternal days 
 
 Absorbs not all the heart, 
 That gives Thee glory, love, and praise, 
 
 For being what Thou art. 
 
 For Thou art God, the One, the same, 
 O'er all things high and bright ; 
 
 And round us, when we speak Thy Name, 
 There spreads a heaven of light.
 
 HYMN FOR THE CLOSE OF A SERVICE. 37 
 
 O wondrous peace, in thought to dwell 
 
 On excellence Divine ; 
 To know that nought in man can tell 
 
 How fair Thy beauties shine ! 
 
 O Thou, above all blessing blest, 
 
 O'er thanks exalted far, 
 Thy very greatness is a rest 
 
 To weaklings as we are ; 
 
 For when we feel the praise of Thee 
 
 A task beyond our powers, 
 We say — "A perfect God is He, 
 
 And He is fully ours."
 
 ?^|)mn ftffore a gonxmi)*. 
 
 N ways of peace and gladness 
 The Lord our footsteps guide, 
 And His benignant Angel 
 Be present at our side, 
 To bring us, safe and thankful, 
 Where we would fain abide. 
 
 Send forth, O God, Thy blessing 
 From Thy most holy place ; 
 
 Be Thou a tower of refuge 
 From the adversary's face. 
 
 And let our souls go onward 
 In thy sweet paths of grace. 
 
 * Partly from the " Itinerarium " of the Breviary.
 
 HYMN BEFORE A JOURNEY. 
 
 O be our ways directed 
 
 Thy righteous laws to keep ; 
 
 Make straight the crooked places, 
 And smooth the pathway steep ; 
 
 And bid Thine Angels guard us 
 With eyes that never sleep. 
 
 Come, Thou that led'st our father 
 From Ur of the Chaldee ; 
 
 Who mad'st Thy pilgrim nation 
 Pass dryshod through the sea ; 
 
 Whose bright star led the Sages 
 To find and worship Thee. 
 
 Come, Saviour, as Thou earnest 
 On that first Easter Day, 
 
 What time the two disciples 
 To Emmaus took their way ; 
 
 Make our heart bum within us, 
 And ever near us stay.
 
 40 HYMN BEFORE A JOURNEY. 
 
 O come, Divine Companion 
 Along life's changeful road ; 
 
 And prosper all our journey 
 To Thy dear Saints' abode, 
 
 The one continuing City, 
 The Holy Mount of God.
 
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 J^gmn for ^assion-titif. 
 
 PON the Cross He died, 
 He died that we might live :' 
 
 The acts that have this faith denied, 
 O injured Lord ! forgive. 
 
 Once more to Thee we turn, 
 Who hvest, and wast dead ; 
 
 But yet our thoughts can scarce discern 
 Thy wounded hands outspread. 
 
 When faith prevailed o'er sight, 
 
 In sterner, simpler days, 
 Thy Passion cast a solemn light 
 
 On hourly works and ways.
 
 42 HYMN FOR PASSION-TIDE. 
 
 To heart and mind it spoke, 
 With tears it filled the eye ; 
 
 Full oft the spell of sin it broke, 
 And brought the far-off nigh. 
 
 It bade them number o'er 
 
 The scars themselves had made ; 
 
 They heard a voice — "All this I bore, 
 And am I thus repaid % " 
 
 But now some earthly chill 
 Can soon our prayers subdue ; 
 
 Can bring to nought our better will, 
 And hide the Cross from view. 
 
 We look, we cry to Thee ; 
 
 O grant us, of Thy grace. 
 The foulness of our sin to see. 
 
 The sweetness of Thy face.
 
 HYMN FOR PASSION-TIDE. 43 
 
 As divers minds are bent, 
 
 Thy varied sufferings show, 
 The pangs Thy Body underwent. 
 
 Thy Soul's mysterious woe. 
 
 Unveil whate'er may best 
 
 To Thee our spirits draw, 
 And fill again the world-worn breast 
 
 With contrite, thankful awe. 
 
 True Saviour ! by Thy Cross, 
 
 And by Thy throne above, 
 O save us from that sorest loss. 
 
 The loss of faith and love.
 
 l^mn for iHicfiaelmas. 
 
 I HOU in whom our very manhood 
 Paused not on its upward way, 
 
 Till it sat where mightiest Angels 
 Must adore it and obey, 
 
 'Tis with holy pride we bless Thee 
 On Thy glorious Michael's day. 
 
 Chiefest he of heavenly Princes, 
 Patron of Thy chosen race, 
 
 He that drove the ancient rebels 
 Down to their appointed place,
 
 HYMN FOR MICHAELMAS. 45 
 
 Calls himself the fellow-servant 
 Of the least that share Thy grace. 
 
 Near him shineth one whose glory 
 Smote with dread Thy favoured seer ; 
 
 He that thrice *, with words benignant, 
 Lifted off the load of fear ; 
 
 He that first proclaimed Thy Gospel, 
 When he hailed Thy Mother dear. 
 
 If no more that radiant presence 
 In Thy servants' path is found, 
 
 Yet we lean on Thy sure promise. 
 Asking not for sight or sound ; 
 
 Thou, unseen, art watching o'er us, 
 And Thy hosts encamp around. 
 
 * Dan. X. 19 ; St. Luke i. 13. 30.
 
 46 HYMN FOR MICHAELMAS. 
 
 So, if once on young Tobias 
 
 Raphael spent a comrade's cares, 
 
 Now yet more our several Guardians 
 Haste to serve salvation's heirs ; 
 
 'Tis our part in Thee, O Jesus ! 
 Wins us all this love of theirs. 
 
 Mindful, then, of all good Angels 
 
 In Thy service nobly free. 
 Let us faintly join their chorus, 
 
 While our festal prayer shall be, — 
 More and more with them unite us 
 
 In adoring love to Thee. 
 
 Grant us. Lord, their zeal for goodness, 
 And their loathing hate of ill ; 
 
 Let their loyal promptness teach us 
 How to do the Father's will,
 
 HYMN FOR MICHAELMAS. 47 
 
 With a keen and steadfast ardour 
 Each commandment to fulfil. 
 
 But we are not, Lord, high-minded ; 
 
 Well we know how oft we fall ; 
 O let Thy converting Spirit 
 
 Straight the wandering sheep recall, 
 Kindling pure Angelic gladness 
 
 Through the bright celestial hall. 
 
 Let Thy grace yet more restrain us, 
 Lest anew from Thee we roam ; 
 
 And when at Thine awful bidding 
 Our predestined change shall come, 
 
 Grant us peace, and give Thine Angels 
 Charge to bear our spirits home.
 
 48 HYMN FOR MICHAELMAS. 
 
 Let them watch our happy mansions, 
 Where the foe can stretch no rod * ; 
 
 Till the Judgment's thrilling prelude 
 Pierces through the burial sod, 
 
 And the great Archangel calls us 
 In our flesh to meet our God. 
 
 * Psalm cxxv. 3.
 
 i^gmn for a |¥lartj)i*'s! Sag. 
 
 AVIOUR, while we dwell securely 
 In this quiet resting-place, 
 And Thine unpolluted altars 
 
 Ne'er behold a threatening face, 
 Let us think of all Thy brave ones, 
 
 More than conquerors through Thy grace. 
 
 Thou didst make the good confession, 
 Thou didst bear the witness true, 
 
 E
 
 HYMN FOR A MARTYRS DA Y. 
 
 Which could all the white-robed Army 
 
 With supernal force endue, 
 And in their majestic patience 
 
 Somewhat of Thy Cross renew. 
 
 Thou wast standing up in glory 
 Not for Stephen's sake alone, 
 
 But for all — for him whose triumph, 
 Save for Thee, were still unknown ; 
 
 Antipas, Thy faithful Martyr, 
 
 Slain where Satan fixed his throne. 
 
 Through the stem campaign we mark Thee, 
 Cheering, strengthening, crowning all ; 
 
 Present when the Cedron valley 
 Saw Thy righteous kinsman fall ; 
 
 When the blood-stained Harlot City 
 Slew Thy Peter and Thy Paul.
 
 HYMN FOR A MARTYRS DA Y. 51 
 
 Thine were they whose mystic voices 
 'Neath the altar cried, " How long ?" 
 
 Thine was he whose glorious answer 
 
 Showed how love could make him strong ; 
 
 " Eighty years and six I served Him, 
 And He never did me wrong." 
 
 Yes, though oft the prime of manhood 
 Won the wreath that ne'er decays, 
 
 And a Laurence and a Vincent 
 Wear the true victorious bays, 
 
 Yet in weakest things of this world 
 Thou didst win Thee fullest praise. 
 
 Ah ! 'twas like Thee, O my Jesus ! 
 Richest grace on these to shed ; 
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 HYMN FOR A MARTYR'S DA Y. 
 
 On the boyish bloom of Pancras, 
 
 On Pothinus' hoary head, 
 On the softly-nurtured women 
 
 Following where Perpetua led. 
 
 Mothers gladly saw their children 
 Death for Mary's Son endure ; 
 
 Home and lands young Cyril yielded 
 For the Martyr's birthright sure ; 
 
 And the once-polluted Afra 
 
 Gained the palm-branch of the pure. 
 
 Virgin lips, their Lord confessing, 
 Trembled not for steel or flames ; 
 
 Agnes, Lucy, Faith, Cecilia — 
 'Tis a joy to speak their names ! 
 
 Let the hand forget her cunning 
 If the memory slight their claims.
 
 HYMN FOR A MARTYR'S DA Y. 53 
 
 Ah ! but none, Thou loving Shepherd, 
 Were more precious in Thine eyes 
 
 Than apostates of the moment 
 Who returned to win the prize, 
 
 Saying to the Foe, " Rejoice not, 
 Though I fell, He makes me rise." 
 
 And the secret of their conquest 
 Let Thy Kingdom's records tell ; 
 
 'Twas the old Faith once delivered, 
 Scorned so oft, and proved so well ; 
 
 They adored Thee, God Incarnate, 
 They believed in Heaven and Hell. 
 
 Oft Thou heard'st them in the tortures 
 Gasping, ere the soul went free —
 
 54 HYMN FOR A MARTYRS DA Y. 
 
 "Jesus, in Thy cause I suffer — 
 To Thy Name all praises be ! 
 
 Rather this — O grant me patience ! 
 Than eternal loss of Thee." 
 
 Rather this 1 O rather all things ! 
 
 God our Saviour, keep us Thine ; 
 In this age's bloodless conflict 
 
 Let us ne'er that Faith resign ; 
 So at length Thy voice shall own us, 
 
 " These were true to Me and Mine."
 
 gin intercession. 
 
 THOU in whose all-pitying eyes 
 Each pardoned soul is one more prize, 
 Thy mercy makes it sweet indeed 
 For cherished friends to intercede. 
 
 But since our love would ne'er abound 
 If pent in too familiar ground, 
 In thoughtful moments of the day 
 For those we know not let us pray.
 
 56 AN INTERCESSION. 
 
 For all whose faces ne'er we see — 
 But chiefly those, well known to Thee, 
 Whose perilled, sickly, struggling soul 
 Cries out for God to make it whole. 
 
 Those most of all, for love's dear sake, 
 Whose need is all the cry they make. 
 Whose very depth of ill is this. 
 Their vanished graces ne'er to miss. 
 
 Have mercy, Christ ! on hearts grown cold, 
 On sheep that long have left Thy fold ; 
 On souls once full of eyes within. 
 Now blinded through deceits of sin. 
 
 On those, Thine own in earlier youth. 
 Now coldly asking, "What is truth 1" 
 Who spurn the way their fathers trod. 
 Forego their faith, and lose their God.
 
 AN INTERCESSION. 57 
 
 On tempted souls, — O Saviour, think 
 Of those who touch the awful brink. 
 And unrepentant, unforgiven, 
 This very night may forfeit Heaven. 
 
 Send help to all whom ease or toil, 
 Whom care or wealth, would taint or spoil ; 
 To those no less, in pain that lie, 
 Tempted to curse their God and die. 
 
 In garrets foul, in cellars dark, 
 There are on whom is set Thy mark ; 
 Thou that wast laid in oxen's stall, 
 O ne'er let misery work their fall. 
 
 Once more, for those who never heard 
 The still small voice of Thy dear Word, 
 Who in Thy land as heathens roam, 
 O Christ, we pray Thee, — fetch them home.
 
 Sets of 13tai)ci:. 
 
 ^HERE'ER thy knees are bent, 'tis awful 
 ground, 
 
 God's throne before thee, and His hosts around : 
 But turn to Him in whom two natures meet, 
 His grace divine, His human love entreat : 
 To God thy Father tell thy guilt and shame, 
 And pardon crave in God thy Brother's name : 
 And more than pardon — more He fain would give ; 
 Ask all thou need'st, a worthier life to live :
 
 ACTS OF PRAYER. 59 
 
 Nor ask for self alone ; He bids thee dare 
 
 All, whom thy love can reach, enfold in prayer : 
 
 More warmly then tliy gratitude shall glow, 
 
 In praising Him that makes thy cup o'erflow : 
 
 Whose sweetness bids thee trustfully commend 
 
 Whate'er thou hast and art to thine eternal Friend.
 
 temptation. 
 
 HOU that lov'st us dearer far 
 Than our truest self we love, 
 Canst re-make whate'er we mar, 
 
 Canst our clinging stains remove, 
 Canst enrich the barren heart 
 
 With a boon of gracious tears. 
 And restore, in whole or part, 
 E'en the locust-eaten years : 
 
 Thou that when we scarce can tell 
 If we love Thee, ay or no, — 
 
 When, as from some deepest well, 
 Fresh temptations ever flow,
 
 TEMPTA TION. 6i 
 
 When our souls, 'mid strife intense, 
 Wage a poor half-hearted fight, — 
 Still canst be our strong defence, 
 • Out of weakness bring forth might : 
 
 Thou to whom our fathers cried, 
 
 Cried and were not brought to shame, — 
 Save us from yon billo^vy tide, 
 
 Snatch us from this brightening flame ! 
 By the precious life-drops spilt 
 
 To wash white our loathsome clay, 
 Let the thoughts that end in guilt 
 
 From our bosoms pass away. 
 
 Thou to whom that sire distraught 
 Weeping showed his tortured boy, 
 
 Scarce believing, still besought, 
 Then could scarce believe for joy ;
 
 62 
 
 TEMPTA TION. 
 
 All we haye, O wilt Thou take ? 
 
 Longings deep our sins to rue ; 
 These are Thine — from these awake 
 
 Love unfeigned, and penance true.
 
 ^cnitcncf. 
 
 s^l 
 
 GRANT us, Lord, a contrite heart ; 
 With this our inmost wants begin ; 
 
 Bid all the selfish ease depart 
 
 That blunts and chills our sense of sin. 
 
 Thou heard'st our fathers grace entreat 
 As men that cry 'mid wreck or fire ; 
 
 Their sons the selfsame prayers repeat 
 With scarce one spark of true desire.
 
 64 PENITENCE. 
 
 But Thou canst help us, if Thou wilt — 
 Canst make us stand the Cross beside, 
 
 And teach us there to loathe our guilt, 
 Remembering wherefore Jesus died. 
 
 Show us that sin is heartless wrong, 
 Good Father ! to Thy love so vast, 
 
 That bears so much, and waits so long. 
 To win Thy children home at last. 
 
 Grant us to turn, believe, repent ; 
 
 Let Thy sweet grace our hardness kill. 
 And Thy most Holy Sacrament 
 
 Confirm in good our faltering will.
 
 ^raj)cr after 13artion. 
 
 E know Thee who Thou art, 
 Lord Jesus, Mary's Son ; 
 We know the yearnings of Thy heart 
 To end Thy work begun. 
 
 That sacred fount of grace, 
 
 'Mid all the bliss of Heaven, 
 Has joy whene'er we seek Thy face. 
 
 And kneel to be forgiven.
 
 66 PRA YER AFTER PARDON. 
 
 Brought home from ways perverse, 
 At peace Thine arms within, 
 
 We pray Thee, shield us from the curse 
 Of falhng back to sin. 
 
 We dare not ask to Hve 
 
 Henceforth from trials free ; 
 
 But oh ! when next they tempt us, give 
 More strength to cling to Thee. 
 
 We know Thee who Thou art, 
 Our own redeeming Lord ; 
 
 Be Thou by will, and mind, and heart, 
 Accepted, loved, adored.
 
 ^riliulation anH ^Mealtf). 
 
 ui^^^UFFERING is learning;" so of old 'twas 
 writ * ; 
 
 And well the pensive minds of Hellas knew 
 That insolence was oft to grandeur knit, 
 
 And out of power a soul's corruption grew. 
 
 Therefore they marvelled at Timoleon's hfe, 
 Bright with success, but self-renouncing still + 
 
 * Herod, i. 207. -j- Grote, Hist. Gr. vii. 601. 
 
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 68 TRIBULATION AND WEALTH. 
 
 Or hers, of kings the daughter, sister, wife, 
 Whose heart was ne'er elate with blind self-will*. 
 
 The phrase might seem an echo of the Book 
 That tells how men, 'mid life's delicious flow, 
 
 Their strength or wisdom for their fortress took, 
 And were in pride uplifted, — for their woe. 
 
 And be the warning precious, whensoe'er 
 
 Soft ease would fan us with her fragrant wings, ' 
 
 And we, too prosperous, in the sunshine fair 
 Forget God's presence, and the Four Last Things. 
 
 But dare we deem that only in success 
 Our life's probation or our danger lies ; 
 
 That pain, by law of nature, needs must bless. 
 And sorrow fix our treasure in the skies ? 
 
 * Thuc. vl. 59.
 
 TRIBULATION AND WEALTH. 69 
 
 Too well we know what fierce unchanging spite 
 With versatile resource pursues its prey ; 
 
 Whose arrows find us when our path is bright, 
 And pierce us in the dark and cloudy day. 
 
 Why else do sinners, for each stroke or loss 
 More prone to trespass, fill the sacred theme. 
 
 Wretches who hang rebelUous on a cross, 
 
 Who gnaw their tongues for anguish, and blas- 
 pheme * % 
 
 For pain can harden, grief can isolate. 
 
 And chill, too oft, the love that sprang from joy ; 
 
 A sudden shock the faith of years abate. 
 And death's last agonies the soul destroy. 
 
 And where, O Christ, is safety ? Where indeed, 
 But in the grace which taught Thy glorious Paul 
 
 * Rev. xvi. 10, II.
 
 70 TRIBULATION AND WEALTH. 
 
 How to abound, and how to suffer need, 
 
 To face all changes, and be Thine through all % 
 
 To Thee who canst not change, our saving Health, 
 Shall this deep prayer by steadfast faith be 
 poured, — 
 
 In time of tribulation and of wealth, 
 
 Be near, to save us from ourselves, O Lord.
 
 |3atience. 
 
 N patience make your souls your own*;" 
 When darksome days were near, 
 
 This rule He gave, to guard His flock 
 From restlessness and fear. 
 
 Yet, Lord, from other lips than Thine 
 The words might seem to speak 
 
 Of Heathen calmness, self-upheld 
 And scorning to be weak ; 
 
 * St. Luke xxi. 19, KTr,ffaade.
 
 72 
 
 PA TIENCE. 
 
 The philosophic height of soul, 
 That counteth nothing great *, 
 
 And in the face of shock or storm 
 Relies on power innate. 
 
 But all the goodliness of pride 
 Thou bidd'st Thine own abjure, 
 
 And find in nothingness confessed 
 The strength that standeth sure. 
 
 Yes ; we are nothing — Thou art all ! 
 
 That creed, implanted deep, 
 Shall nerve us, in the evil day 
 
 A good heart still to keep. 
 
 If tidings of a wide distress 
 
 Ring like a funeral sound, 
 With anguish thickening o'er the earth 
 
 And terrors all around ; 
 
 * Arist. Eth. iv. 3.
 
 PA TIENCE. 
 
 What joy, to set the Name of Christ 
 Between our souls and harm, 
 
 And cast the weight of all our care 
 On Thy sufficing arm ! 
 
 What peace, to welcome all Thy will, 
 
 Bid faithless fears depart, 
 And sanctify the Lord our God 
 
 Within the trustful heart ! 
 
 So, as of old Thy Spirit's force 
 A shrinking prophet steeled • , 
 
 To grace in its transforming might 
 Shall nature's weakness yield. 
 
 For this is man's true dignity, 
 
 To lean on God above ; 
 The kingly power of self-control 
 
 Comes with the gift of love f. 
 
 Jer. i. 18. fa Tim. i. 7. 
 
 73
 
 74 
 
 PA TIENCE. 
 
 This is the patience bom of faith, 
 That sets the whole man free, 
 
 And makes our souls our o\vn in truth, 
 By offering them to Thee.
 
 ^^ankfulncgs. 
 
 IS not for nothing, Lord, we read 
 How, in the Church's golden prime, 
 The readiest for Thy cause to bleed, 
 
 The men in thought and act sublime, 
 Whose names beam out like stars in heaven, 
 
 Whose memory all Thy liegemen bless, 
 Were those to whom Thy love had given 
 The boon of life-long thankfulness.
 
 76 THANKFULNESS. 
 
 Full well they knew, 'twas meet and right 
 
 To mingle constant praise with prayer, 
 To render thanks with all their might, 
 
 For all things, always, every where ; 
 So Cyprian with thanksgiving glowed, 
 
 Soon as he heard the doom of death ; 
 And " Praise to God for all things " flowed 
 
 From Chrysostom's departing breath. 
 
 But far and wide the grace was cast. 
 
 The seed of love was broadly sown ; 
 By " Deo gratias," as they passed, 
 
 The faithful folk were surest known ; 
 That watchword for the daily strife 
 
 Might well their tongues and thoughts employ, 
 Who made the Church transform their life, 
 
 And the great Offering crown their joy.
 
 THANKFULNESS. 77 
 
 Let their example teach us, Lord, 
 
 One secret of the life divine ; 
 How in the thankful breast are stored 
 
 Forces that make the whole man Thine. 
 Who bids his heart go forth in love 
 
 To Thee that far exceed'st it still, 
 Sets all within him free to move 
 
 In concert with Thine own dear will. 
 
 Ah ! well may lives be poor and base, 
 
 When hearts to Thee are hard and cold ; 
 O grant, in love, that quickening grace. 
 
 Which yet Thy justice might withhold. 
 Thou that didst turn the flinty rock 
 
 At once into a springing well, 
 Our closed affection canst unlock, 
 
 And make our lips Thy mercies tell.
 
 •78 THANKFULNESS. 
 
 So grant us, first, a worthier sense 
 
 Of gifts that form our special share, 
 Each gracious call and influence, 
 
 Each friend raised up, each answered prayer ; 
 Then make us wing a broader flight, 
 
 Heli> us to bless Thee while we scan 
 The length, and breadth, and depth, and height 
 
 Of Thy redeeming work for man. 
 
 But while Ave long, as long we must, 
 
 More gladness in Thy praise to know. 
 Preserve us, lest we put our trust 
 
 In keen emotion's fitful glow; 
 Let every hymn that thrills the breast 
 
 A duteous habit serve to feed ; 
 So thankful words shall please Thee best, 
 
 When bearing fruit in life and deed.
 
 a ^nUtt i^cart. 
 
 F all the precious gifts, O Lord, 
 Thy mercy can impart, 
 Whate'er Thou wiliest to withhold, 
 O grant a perfect heart *. 
 
 Behold us, how we feebly float 
 Through many a changing mood ; 
 
 How oft one flash of thought annuls 
 Our fimiest choice of good. 
 
 * I Chron. xxviii. 9, &c.
 
 8o A PERFECT HEART. 
 
 We sin, repent, and fondly think 
 Our hill is now made strong ; 
 
 Our state of grace, restored, abides — 
 Thou knowest. Lord, how long ! 
 
 Alas, for prayer-made purposes 
 That live not half the day — 
 
 For goodness like the morning cloud, 
 Like dews that pass away ! 
 
 Alas, this paltry doubleness 
 
 Puts all our life to shame, 
 And brands on us, baptized for Truth, 
 
 The self-deceiver's name. 
 
 Thou knowest all ; but, gracious Lord, 
 We know Thou didst intend 
 
 That we should hold the one true course 
 To Thee, our one true End.
 
 A PERFECT HEART. 8r 
 
 O take our incoherent wills, 
 And set them straight with Thine ! 
 
 Our broken threads of moral life 
 In one strong whole combine : 
 
 Make us each day more fixed in love, 
 
 To Thee more simply given, 
 Till Perseverance lands us safe 
 
 In Thine unchanging Heaven.
 
 Ztal 
 
 jjHEREFORE ask if Heaven's true pilgrims 
 Found less hindrance on their way 
 In the old rough-handed ages 
 
 Than in our fair modern day 1 
 God keeps watch o'er all probations, 
 
 Helping those that strive and pray. 
 
 Ah ! but now His pitying Angels 
 See full many a fall begin
 
 ZEAL. 83. 
 
 When this age's worldly softness 
 
 Penetrates the soul within, 
 Till it looks with half-allowance 
 
 On the ghastly face of sin. 
 
 For all facts must have their'welcome, 
 
 All opinions claim their right ; 
 And the calm impartial blandness 
 
 So befools our moral sight, 
 That we scarcely dare to whisper, 
 
 "This is darkness, that is light." 
 
 " Ye that love the Lord, hate evil ! " 
 
 O let this forgotten lore 
 Send the fire of just discernment 
 
 Burning through our souls once more ; 
 Make us humbly, bravely zealous 
 
 For the God our lips adore. 
 G 2
 
 84 ZEAL. 
 
 Save us, Lord, from base contentment 
 When Thine honour lacks its due ; 
 
 In our chilled and languid spirits 
 Wake the manful faith anew, 
 
 That the vile is not the precious, 
 And the false is not the true. 
 
 f^.^
 
 I^itiins from ©o^. 
 
 ITHER from Eden-gates — a long, long 
 road ! 
 
 Yet whoso looks around, too clearly sees 
 Marks of the twain that hid themselves from God 
 Behind the garden trees. 
 
 The age denies Him not, but blindly strives 
 To thrust His active presence far away. 
 
 Back from the scene of daily thoughts and lives 
 To some dim elder day.
 
 86 HIDING FROM GOD. 
 
 Little it costs to call Him primal Cause ; 
 
 ]\Iore to confess that, since He reignetli still, 
 The sequences men deem eternal laws 
 
 Obey His sovereign will • 
 
 Yet more, to own His full imperial right 
 O'er all the souls and intellects He gave ; 
 
 And from that claim perpetual, infinite, 
 No freedom e'er to crave. 
 
 So men, by some dark impulse, break the cord 
 That bound their sires to worship and to faith ; 
 
 They will not know the terrors of the Lord, 
 Nor bow to all He saith 
 
 Of sin and judgment ; no ! they cannot brook 
 What seems a mystic saying, or a stem ; 
 
 And from His Church interpreting His Book 
 They will not stoop to learn.
 
 HIDING FROM GOD. 87 
 
 And so for solid faith they substitute 
 
 A mass of fluid thoughts, but half believed ; 
 
 And plant the flowers of love, without the root 
 Of sacred facts received. 
 
 Of doctrines strong to heal, amend, uplift ; 
 
 And finding thus no virtue in a Creed, 
 They welcome not the all-surpassing gift 
 
 Of God made Flesh indeed. 
 
 And they whose worldly peace would feel a sting 
 If the Most High were thought to come so near. 
 
 May well ignore His Sacraments, that bring 
 All Heaven around us here. 
 
 So cries the world to Heaven, " Depart from us !" 
 And shall we with the world our portion choose'^ 
 
 Not thus, all-gracious Lord, O never thus 
 May we our bliss refuse !
 
 88 HIDING FROM GOD. 
 
 No — let us open wide our spirit's door 
 To all that speaks and witnesses of Thee ; 
 
 And hasten to the Light, that more and more 
 Our lives may lightened be. 
 
 O loving Presence ! beam through mind and heart 
 Possess us wholly ; come, in fulness come ; 
 
 Nor e'er hereafter say, " Let Us depart," 
 But, " This shall be My home."
 
 Cf)e arorner Stone, a Stumbling Stone. 
 
 NE mystery of the inner life 
 We tremble while we scan ; 
 God sendeth days with good most rife, 
 Most perilous to man. 
 
 When sacred truth is fullest taught, 
 And grace flows fax and wide, 
 
 They seem most rudely set at nought, 
 Most thanklessly defied.
 
 po THE CORNER STONE, 
 
 Can hardened hardness be the effect 
 
 Of more outspoken love ? 
 Can He, the Corner Stone Elect, 
 
 A stone of stumbling prove 1 
 
 Yea, so He willed, who fashioned thus 
 
 The gift of choice we share ; 
 For when He deigns to visit us. 
 
 He lays our spirit bare. 
 
 His presence, hke a potent test, 
 
 Appealing to our will, 
 Intensifies within the breast 
 
 Our force of good or ill. 
 
 Its voice the wise have understood ; 
 
 They cry, " Thy servants hear j" 
 While some slirink fartlier from their good, 
 
 Because it comes so near.
 
 A STUMBLING STONE. 9^ 
 
 A dread rehearsal of the Doom 
 
 Thus holds its gradual sway, 
 And men far distant from the tomb 
 
 Are judged from day to day ; 
 
 As each makes answer to the voice, 
 
 In severed ranks they stand ; 
 On each, for every godless choice, 
 
 Is marked a deeper brand. 
 
 O set for rising and for fall. 
 
 This tells us why of yore 
 Thou wouldst not manifest to all 
 
 What loving hearts adore : 
 
 So now, whene'er, with wondering grief. 
 
 Thy truth divine we see 
 Awakening fiercer unbelief 
 
 Where joyous faith should be ;
 
 92 THE CORNER STONE, 5r-r. 
 
 Let no impatience of Thy wrong 
 Keep back our pitying prayers, 
 
 That those for whom Thou tarriest long 
 May find our Jesus — theirs.
 
 St. iHactin's Vimn. 
 
 N aged saint was kneeling, rapt in prayer 
 'Twas he that more abundantly than all 
 
 Had toiled, to chase the idols from their lair 
 In forest glades of Gaul. 
 
 Ere yet the Font he knew, a soldier lad, 
 
 At Amiens gate, when winter's face was grim. 
 
 With half his cloak a shivering wretch he clad, 
 So clothing Christ in him.
 
 94 ST. MARTIN'S VISION. 
 
 That loving deed, by Love thus owned and blest, 
 Became the sunrise of the bright career 
 
 That made, through all God's Churches in the West, 
 The name of Martin dear. 
 
 Wondrous in works ; 'mid furious Heathen brave ; 
 
 His teaching with the Name of Jesus rife ; 
 Deep pity in his heart, that yearned to save 
 
 A doomed heresiarch's life. 
 
 And he was kneeling, praying through the night, 
 When 'mid a splendour as from heaven sent do\\ n 
 
 A form stood o'er him, beautiful and bright, 
 With gorgeous robes and crown. 
 
 A sweet voice thrilled him, while his face he raised ; 
 
 " Has Martin, then, to own his Lord forgot ? 
 Adore me, O my servant ! " Martin gazed. 
 
 Uprose, and worshipped not,
 
 ST. MARTIN'S VISION. 95 
 
 But sternly spake, " His token never fails ; 
 
 Against deceivers this be my defence : 
 Show me in hands and feet the print of nails : — 
 
 Thou canst not — Get thee hence !" 
 
 O Christ, the same through ages and to-day, 
 In whose dear form those awful marks endure, 
 
 Do not like trials oft our faith assay 
 With many a dazzling lure ? 
 
 Learning and fancy, thought in ample reach * 
 And wealth of glowing words, our homage claim : 
 
 They haunt our ears with gentle, solemn speech. 
 And greet us in Thy Name. 
 
 Grant us to tiy them, Lord, by Martin's test ; 
 And if on this exuberance of mind 
 
 * See a well-known passage at the end of "The Church of the 
 Fathers."
 
 96 ST. MARTIN'S VISION. 
 
 We see Thy saving Passion's mark imprest, 
 To welcome all we find : 
 
 If not — the lying spirit to discern, 
 
 Nor follow, to our endless shame and loss, 
 
 The teachers who would make our hearts unlearn 
 The doctrine of Thy Cross.
 
 Sfcular ©pinion. 
 
 E say, " The chiefs of worldly thought 
 Our motives and our acts misread, 
 And scan through some deforming mist 
 The beauteous Cause for which we plead. 
 
 " Our loyal zeal for Faith they call 
 The instinct of a priestly caste, 
 
 A love of dull dogmatic form, 
 A helpless yearning o'er the past. 
 
 H
 
 98 SECULAR OPINION. 
 
 " They wave us off, they talk us down, 
 With subtle sneer and clamour loud ; 
 
 At every turn our soul is filled 
 
 With all the scorn of all the proud." 
 
 Be patient, friends ; look up to Heaven, 
 And in the appointed future trust ; 
 
 Nor fret if censors do you wrong, 
 Who cannot, if they would, be just. 
 
 A veil before their sight is spread ; 
 
 The whole grand case they cannot see ; 
 No marvel if in Babel's ears 
 
 Your Creed an idle tale should be. 
 
 They know not that the Faith is true. 
 That all high Powers are on your side ; 
 
 God's Kingdom and its wondrous work 
 Are by their shallowness denied.
 
 SECULAR OPINION. 99 
 
 'Tis lack of sense for greatest things 
 That fosters this complacent scorn, 
 
 And makes the World in every age 
 Against the Church lift up her horn. 
 
 Dear friends, accept this little cross. 
 And let man's judgment have its way ; 
 
 And when contemned or slandered most, 
 Be patient — think of Christ — and pray : 
 
 " Lord, give us brave and cheerful faith, 
 To do Thy work and wait Thine hour. 
 
 And know, whate'er Opinion's force. 
 Thine is the kingdom and the power." 
 
 H 2
 
 Cf)e Greatness of (Eommon ILife. 
 
 ULL oft in dull unbroken flow 
 The river of our life steals on ; 
 And thoughts that once could make it glow 
 Are all too willingly foregone. 
 
 Some light it takes from Heaven — ^and yet 
 The round of small prosaic cares 
 
 Wins, day by day, more power to set 
 A gulf between us and our prayers.
 
 THE GREATNESS OF COMMON LIFE. loi 
 
 Our inner self, impoverished thus, 
 Becomes a thrall of trivial things ; 
 
 And O what grand designs for us 
 Our paltriness to failure brings ! 
 
 And still we tread on wondrous ground, 
 And need but grace to hear and see 
 
 What splendours gird our spirits round, 
 What voices call us, Lord, to Thee ! 
 
 Each least eventful hour is fraught 
 
 With helps and harms no tongue can tell ; 
 
 Nor leaves us till our souls are brought 
 Nearer, one step, to Heaven or Hell. 
 
 All day the realms of Love and Hate, 
 Of Life and Death, for us contend ; 
 
 Though tarrying long and coming late, 
 Yet each day nearer draws the end.
 
 102 THE GREA TNESS OF COMMON LIFE. 
 
 Think we on both those kingdoms dread ; 
 
 Nor hst the Hon roaring nigh, 
 Without a gaze on hands outspread, 
 
 That ceaseless plead for us on high. 
 
 Thou Christ enthroned ! that form of Thine 
 Can best light up our common days,' 
 
 Till earthly tameness grows divine, 
 
 And homely work shows forth Thy praise.
 
 mil 
 
 OT true — not true ! our souls protest — 
 From that fell yoke our minds are free ;" 
 So raves the cry of fierce unrest — 
 " Eternal Death 1 It shall not be ! 
 
 " For ended faults, an endless pain 1 
 All mercies lost in vengeful ire 1 
 
 Nay, more — God's justice ye profane. 
 Who say it feeds a quenchless fire.
 
 104 HELL. 
 
 " Sooner than woe should aye endure, 
 Perish the hope of constant bHss ! 
 
 Nor say, Christ's words have made it sure ; 
 They could not mean a doom like this." 
 
 They could not mean ? O blinded hearts, 
 What means your strife with that high law 
 
 That forms us free to take our parts, 
 And makes us hold ourselves in awe ? 
 
 Go, read the cause of endless death 
 
 In that dire mystery of a will 
 That holds, beyond the parted breath, 
 
 Its fixed persistent choice of ill. 
 
 Ye dare not say, "No choice can last," 
 Or, " God must needs our freedom quell ;" 
 
 Then learn, 'tis no mere vanished past 
 That calls for penal throes in Hell.
 
 HELL. 
 
 105 
 
 No ! 'tis the soul whose will intense 
 Survives Probation's measured day, 
 
 And, bidding goodness still " Go hence," 
 Finds answer, ** Take thine own dark way." 
 
 Heed this, O man, ere grace be spent j 
 To fall from God and scorn to rise. 
 
 To sink in woes and ne'er repent, 
 This makes the death that never dies.
 
 ^nticfjrtst. 
 
 ES, he will come ; God knoweth when or 
 where , — 
 But we may see, perchance, 
 Around us tokens, neither dim nor rare, 
 
 That herald his advance : — 
 Lord Jesus, root Thy love our hearts within, 
 Our safeguard when we name the Man of Sin. 
 
 Whene'er we look beyond the holiest ground, 
 What signs unblest we see !
 
 ANTICHRIST. 107 
 
 Such hate of zeal, such earthliness profound, 
 
 Such lack of godly fear, 
 Such wrath provoked by Doctrine's very name. 
 Such fixed rejection of Thy Kingdom's claim ! 
 
 Content with nature, thousands cast out grace 
 
 From their Pelagian creed ; 
 No marvel, then, they give a Church no place 
 
 Whereof they feel no need. 
 So, when she stands across their state-craft's way, 
 " No king but Caesar," sums up all they say. 
 
 To scorn her priests, her Sacraments disown, 
 
 Seems but a light thing now ; 
 Men call their conscience, — free, supreme, alone, — 
 
 The Word to which they bow ; 
 And fast outgrow the credence of their youth, 
 That Christ is God, and all His words are truth.
 
 io8 ANTICHRIST. 
 
 These are the shadows, gathering darker gloom 
 
 Ere yet the storm breaks out ; 
 Ere Europe sees a modern Heathendom, 
 
 With wild blaspheming rout, 
 Break every bund, and cast off every cord 
 That links the Christian races to their Lord. 
 
 And daily bolder grows their downward course 
 
 Who turn from Christ away, 
 To worship human genius, grandeur, force, — 
 
 ^Vhose hopes await the day 
 When, — Creed and prayer 'neath feet of Progress 
 
 trod, — 
 Earth shall re-echo — " Man alone is God." . 
 
 Ah ! then shall he that leads that cry accurst 
 
 'Mid rebels wear the crown ; 
 Of worldly heroes proudest, last, and worst, 
 
 Shall see the world bow down,
 
 ANTICHRIST. 109 
 
 Its sin shall concentrate, its power shall wield, 
 And face the Church as Antichrist revealed. 
 
 Apostates' type and chief, and idol too, 
 
 That lawless one * shall tower 
 Enthroned in temples reared for worship true, 
 
 And have his destined hour 
 To speak great words against the Lord, on high, 
 And strive to make His saints His Name deny. 
 
 Sternest of trials ! who shall come forth bright % 
 
 They, only they, that cling, 
 As with both hands, with heart and soul and might, 
 
 To their Incarnate King : — 
 Lord, help us now to prize what then shall be 
 Their one support — the Faith that lives on Thee. 
 
 • 2 Thess. 11. 8, a tvov^QS. See Archbishop Trench's Five 
 Sermons in 1856, p. 19.
 
 E\it atonement. 
 
 ATHER in Heaven ! when on the Cross 
 we see 
 
 Our Substitute who makes amends to Thee, 
 On whom the burden of our guilt is laid, 
 In whom Thy truth and mercy shine displayed. 
 Who into deepest harmonies can draw 
 Thy sweet compassion and Thy righteous law, 
 His stripes our health, His bondage our release, 
 His pain the chastisement that wins our peace ; 
 Who o'er our frailty can His mantle spread, 
 And make a perfect answer in our stead ; 
 Oiur Victim, Pontiff, Ransomer, and thus, 
 In plenitude of meaning, slain /or us ;
 
 THE A TONEMENT. 1 1 x 
 
 Forthwith objectors, not of scornful mood, 
 But jealous for the truth that Thou art good, 
 Yet all too prompt within themselves to find 
 A measure of the Eternal will and mind, 
 With earnest voice the Church's faith reprove. 
 Saying,— we wrong Thy justice, or Thy love. 
 
 Thy love ? the soul may answer, " Could there be 
 Kindness like this, which gives its best for me '? 
 So of God's love I gain a fuller sense, 
 Than if it triumphed at His law's expense." 
 
 Thy justice ? Lo, the self-made Sacrifice ! 
 Of pure, benign free will He bleeds and dies ; 
 He that, as second Adam of our race, 
 By right supreme could stand in all men's place ; 
 And add this grander truth, which, most of all, 
 Our censors need to ponder or recall,
 
 1 1 2 THE A TONE ME NT. 
 
 Of Adam's sons who this life's path have trod, 
 The Crucified alone was truly God. 
 
 BeUeve but this, — the cause of Faith is won ; 
 The Father's dealings with the Eternal Son, 
 Their plan of rescue for our fallen dust, 
 Above all thought must tower, Divinely just. 
 
 Believe but this, — then tax us, friends, no more 
 With deeming God reluctant to give o'er 
 His wrathful purpose, till the pleading force 
 Of Jesu's Blood prevailed to change His course. 
 No ! one in essence, one in majesty, 
 Father and Son must one in counsel be ; 
 Not readier this to judge, or that to bless ; 
 In each all love, in each all hohness ; 
 The Father's pitying care the Cross ordained, 
 His own high law of right the Son sustained.
 
 THE A TONEMENT. 1 13 
 
 Believe but this, — in awful light shall glow 
 The healing virtues of that wondrous woe j 
 What marvel, when the Lord our God most high, 
 Clothed in our flesh, was lifted up to die. 
 If then His Godhead to His Manhood gave 
 Merit and force a thousand worlds to save % 
 If still ye ask, what reasoning can explain 
 How Substitution can be aught but vain. 
 How one can turn aside another's fate, 
 The question waits for answer ; — let it wait. 
 But note this only, — 'tis a faith ye find 
 Deep in the fountain-thoughts of all mankind ; 
 If hid from sight its primal essence lies, 
 Prayer is a mystery kin to Sacrifice ; 
 And if sin-offerings mock the soul indeed, 
 A dark doubt follows — Who can intercede %
 
 Ei)e ^rtesti)oot!. 
 
 ATHER of Lights ! that every day 
 In threescore years and ten 
 Uost many a gift to us convey 
 By hands of brother-men ; 
 
 Thus joining heart to heart in love, 
 And training thus the* mind 
 
 The source of good in Thee above 
 By growing faith to find ;
 
 THE PRIESTHOOD. 115 
 
 What marvel if in things of grace 
 
 Thy rule be still the same ; 
 If in the Church be found a place 
 
 For agents in Thy Name ? 
 
 So willed of yore, so willeth yet 
 
 Thy Son, by whom we live, 
 Through stewards o'er His household set 
 
 The food of souls to give. 
 
 Their sacred acts, O Christ, are Thine \ 
 
 Unseen, yet understood, 
 'Tis Thou that mak'st the bread and wine 
 
 Thy Body and Thy Blood. 
 
 Each babe that feels the christening hand 
 
 Is folded to Thy breast ; 
 Before Thee kneels each faithful band, 
 
 By Thee absolved and blest. 
 I 2
 
 1 16 THE PRIESTHOOD. 
 
 These acts are all one stream of power 
 That from Thy Manhood flows, 
 
 And still in every place and hour 
 Thy Passion's fruit bestows. 
 
 Lord, grant us in Thy Priests to see 
 The boon Thy love hath sent ; 
 
 No barrier 'tween ourselves and Thee, 
 But Thine own instrument ; 
 
 To prize Thy City's glorious things 
 As ne'er we prized before ; 
 
 And so, borne up on eagle-wings, 
 Thyself in all adore.
 
 €f}t Qrhtninq Absolution. 
 
 
 ANY the soothing rites that Christ doth 
 make 
 
 Our frequent portion here ; 
 But next to that wherein Himself we take, 
 
 One seems exceeding dear ; 
 Although the day be weary or be long, 
 His Absolution comes at Evensong. 
 
 In the world's evening was its Helper sent ; 
 As sunlight wore away
 
 ii8 THE EVENING ABSOLUTION. 
 
 He fed the crowds ; His wondrous Sacrament 
 
 Illumed the close of day ; 
 And shadows fell, in Joseph's burial-place, 
 On that white covering of the calm dead Face. 
 
 The Easter brightness kissed the open grave ; 
 
 When evening came again. 
 He to His legates the commandment gave 
 
 To pardon or retain. 
 And fitly thus, at that sweet vesper hour, 
 His English priests put forth the absolving power. 
 
 Ah ! rather say. He puts it forth, who lives 
 
 A Priest for evermore ; 
 His organs they ; by them He still forgives. 
 
 Who gave the Keys of yore. 
 They shower abroad His peace ; He bids it find 
 Meet habitation in the contrite mind.
 
 THE E VENING ABSOL UTION. 1 1 9 
 
 Sweet is the preaching of Thy Word — but this, 
 
 Dear Lord, this gift divine 
 To penitents brings home their very bHss, 
 
 Thy Father's peace and Thine : 
 Whate'er has cheered the day, through toil or rest, 
 What cancels all its sin, beyond compare is best.
 
 Ritual 
 
 HEN to Thy beloved on Patmos, 
 Through the open door in Heaven, 
 Visions of the perfect worship, 
 
 Saviour \ by Thy love were given, 
 Surely i/iere was truth and spirit, 
 Surely there a pattern shown 
 How Thy Church should do her service 
 When she came before the Throne. 
 
 O the censer-bearing Elders, 
 
 Crowned with gold and robed in white ! 
 O the Living Creatures' anthem, 
 
 Never resting day or night !
 
 RITUAL. 121 
 
 And the thousand choirs of Angels, 
 
 With their voices hke the sea, 
 Singing praise to God the Father, 
 
 And, O Victim Lamb, to Thee ! 
 
 Lord, bring home the glorious lesson 
 
 To their hearts, who strangely deem 
 That an unmajestic worship 
 
 Doth Thy Majesty beseem ; 
 Show them more of Thy dear Presence, 
 
 Let them, let them come to know 
 That our King is throned among us, 
 
 And His Church is Heaven below. 
 
 Then shall Faith read off the meaning 
 Of each stately-ordered rite, 
 
 Dull surprise and hard resistance 
 Turn to awe and full delight ;
 
 122 RITUAL. 
 
 Men shall learn how sacred splendour 
 Shadows forth the pomps above, 
 
 How tlie gloiy of our altars * 
 Is the homage of our love. 
 
 'Tis for Thee we bid the frontal 
 
 Its embroidered wealth unfold, 
 'Tis for Thee we deck the reredos 
 
 With the colours and the gold ; 
 Thine the lloral glow and fragrance, 
 
 Thine the vestures' fair array, 
 Thine the starry lights that glitter 
 
 Where Thou dost Thy Light display. 
 
 'Tis to Thee the chant is lifted, 
 'Tis to Thee the heads are bowed ; 
 
 * A phrase of Bishop Sparrow's; "Rationale," p. 46.
 
 RITUAL. 123 
 
 Far less deep was Israel's rapture 
 When the glory filled the cloud. 
 
 O our own true God Incarnate, 
 What should Christians' Ritual be 
 
 But a voice to utter somewhat 
 Of their pride and joy in Thee ? 
 
 What but this 1 yet since corruption 
 
 Mars too oft our holiest things, 
 In the form preserve the spirit ; 
 
 Give the worship angel-wings, 
 Till we gain Thine own high temple. 
 
 Where no tainting breath may come, 
 And whate'er is good and beauteous 
 
 Finds with Thee a perfect home.
 
 St. ^ut(no's. 
 
 O up, my son," the Prophet said, 
 " And look toward the sea." 
 Ah ! came that summons, in thy thought, 
 O Cymric Saint ! to thee 1 
 
 Here, on this grand and solemn height 
 
 Above the Irish main, 
 Thou stood'st, intent on earthly loss 
 
 And everlasting gain.
 
 ST. TUDNO'S. 125 
 
 o 
 
 And lower, in a cavern-cell, 
 
 Thou mad'st thy stern abode, 
 To fill thy soul, in loneliness. 
 
 With the great thought of God. 
 
 Seven times a day the Orme's Head rocks 
 
 Re-echoed to thy prayer, 
 Ascending to the Lofty One 
 
 Through this keen mountain air. 
 
 And thou would'st haply muse awhile 
 
 On forms of human power, 
 When thy fierce nation's kingly strength 
 
 Sat throned on Penmaenmawr. 
 
 But oh ! what peace would wrap thee round, 
 
 As one whom Angels keep. 
 Oft as thine eyes, at close of prayer. 
 
 Went roaming o'er the deep.
 
 126 ST. TUDNO'S. 
 
 It lay before thee, dark or bright, 
 
 Its voices filled thine ear, 
 Symbol of God's vast Providence, 
 
 So gentle, so austere. 
 
 Majestic sign of power and life, 
 High wrath and gracious calm. 
 
 Its due-recurring choral tides 
 Responded to thy psalm. 
 
 Though strange to us thy life and death, 
 
 Yet English faith shall say. 
 Thou wast among God's witnesses 
 
 In tliat wild ancient day. 
 
 And still, where thine own mountain church 
 
 Looks calmly o'er the waves, 
 And, sight of joy ! the blessed Cross 
 
 Gleams fair on recent graves,
 
 ST. TUDNO'S. 127 
 
 We'll honour one that walked with God, 
 
 And sought no earthly fame ; 
 And blend with thanksgiving to Christ 
 
 His faithful Tudno's name.
 
 Cf)c "angelus" at Hucerne *. 
 
 N the last eve of a glad autumn week, 
 Waiting for friends' return, 
 I marked the dying radiance faintly streak 
 Thy roofs and towers, Lucerne. 
 
 Then o'er the western heights that find a crown 
 
 In stem Pilatus' head. 
 The glorious Lake, the old historic town, 
 
 Soft shadows grew and spread. 
 
 * Reprinted from the " Englishman's Magazine."
 
 THE ''ANGEL US'' AT L UCERNE. 1 29 
 
 And stillness with them came, profound, intense, 
 
 As if yon cloistral shade 
 Could breathe a strange sepulchral influence 
 
 All nature to pervade. 
 
 No sound of common hfe the silence broke ; 
 
 But, with a thrilling toll, 
 The Minster belfry raised its voice, and spoke 
 
 Straight to the heart and soul ; 
 
 The summons to the week's last " Angelus ! " 
 
 Its wild unearthly chime 
 Witnessed of Him, the Word made Flesh for us 
 
 In lowliness sublime. 
 
 But whence the subtle magic of those bells ? 
 
 Not such the notes that ring 
 From every steeple that at Easter swells 
 
 Our triumph in our King ; 
 
 K
 
 130 THE ''ANGELUS'' AT LUCERNE. 
 
 For though what bids us think how Gabriel came 
 
 Uplifts us to rejoice, 
 A depth of sadness, pity, love, and shame 
 
 Spoke in that belfry's voice. 
 
 It seemed to make confession unto God, 
 
 It seemed to plead with man 
 For Him whose love a patient path has trod 
 
 Since first His work began. 
 
 Woe for the wills against their Saviour set 
 
 So fiercely then as now ! 
 Woe for the stubborn knees that will not yet 
 
 Before the Incarnate bow ; 
 
 For ears that cannot brook the strong full tones 
 
 Of our unfaltering Creed ; 
 For hearts whose hardened earthliness disowns 
 
 The Cross and their own need.
 
 THE ''ANGEL US'' AT L UCERNE. j 31 
 
 Still, throned in heaven, to dupes of unbelief 
 
 He spreads His hands all day ; 
 They scan His claims, give judgment cold and 
 brief. 
 
 And fearless turn away. 
 
 " A brave, pure soul, — purest of men, perchance, 
 
 In History's ripe award ; 
 Wronged by the legends, bom of fond romance, 
 
 That call Him God and Lord." 
 
 These walk in pride, by sparks themselves have 
 lit, 
 
 Gross darkness soon to be ; 
 While others in a dreamy cloudland sit, 
 
 Half asking, " Art Thou He 1 " 
 
 Once more, O peerless mystery of grace ! 
 Thy sweet appeal renew ; 
 K 2
 
 132 THE ''ANGEL US'' AT L UCERNE. 
 
 Light up dark minds ; win souls to Thine em- 
 brace ; 
 High forts of doubt subdue. 
 
 Speak, till the sons of peace, with hearts unseared, 
 
 Led by that voice of Thine, 
 Find Him each day more glorious, more endeared, 
 
 Christ Human, Christ Divine.
 
 St. ©etbats, Koucn. 
 
 ES — 'tis a place that will not be forgot ; 
 Our memories keep it sacred. We had 
 stood, 
 That morn, in Normandy's primatial church, 
 Old Rouen's grand and solemn Notre Dame, 
 Where Rollo wild and pious Longsword sleep. 
 And our own Founder fills a nameless grave *. 
 Shrunk was its ancient pomp ; within the choir 
 A scanty band of Canons knelt, and one 
 At the High Altar said the Chapter Mass, 
 With two church-boys in trailing cassocks red 
 To serve him and respond. And thence we came 
 
 • William of Durham died at Rouen, in 1249.
 
 134 ST. GERVAIS, ROUEN. 
 
 To fair St. Maclou's, where through gorgeous glass 
 
 The soft light fell on bowed communicants, 
 
 And still a tablet spoke of Mission held, 
 
 And vows Baptismal heartily renewed, 
 
 When Louis Seize had not been ten years king, 
 
 Nor yet the great uprooting storm had burst 
 
 On France's throne and altar. Onward thence, 
 
 To that high-towering pile of loveliness, 
 
 A shrine of beauty rather than of awe, 
 
 St. Ouen, in its wealth of lightsome grace 
 
 Greeting the autumn sunshine. Calm it stood, 
 
 As if no fierce fanatic Huguenots, 
 
 Mistaking sacrilege for godly zeal. 
 
 Nor, later, those that warred against all faith. 
 
 Had e'er profaned it. 
 
 Then a gentle slope 
 Ascending, soon we reached the simple fane. 
 Sole relic of St. Gervais' Priory, 
 Where once to Norman William's dying ear.
 
 ST. GERVAIS, ROUEN. 135 
 
 Pealing across the city, swept the toll 
 
 Of deep Cathedral bells, announcing Prime ; 
 
 And then, with lifted hands, and blinded prayer 
 
 To Mary, as if nearer than her Son, 
 
 The hard stem kingly spirit left its corse 
 
 To lie three hours neglected on the ground. 
 
 Till, for the love of God and Normandy *, 
 
 At his own cost a simple knight began 
 
 The obsequies, through Ascelin's righteous claim 
 
 So hardly brought to close. Had e'er the Psalm 
 
 That warns us, man's estate is vanity, 
 
 A fuller comment than the Conqueror's end % 
 
 Such scenes before him pass, who musing stands 
 Beside St. Gervais' walls. But O the change, 
 Soon as he gains the little crypt below ! 
 Its age by Roman brick-work manifest. 
 It still survives, a Basilic complete, 
 
 * Ord. Vital, vii. 16.
 
 136 ST. GERVAIS, ROUEN. 
 
 With nave and choir, and apse for holiest place, 
 And the twin sockets for the chancel-veil, 
 And the stone altar with its crosses five, 
 And traces of a seat pontifical, 
 And arched recesses where for ages lay 
 The first of Rouen's prelates, and the next. 
 Till fear of Northmen bore the sacred bones 
 To safer sheltering. Be the memory blest 
 Of Mello and Avician ! O'er their graves, 
 Haply, Victricius — he who, one has deemed*, 
 First sang the great " Quicunque," — he who bore 
 The staff at Rouen, while o'er Hippo rose 
 The light of all the west, — this temple reared. 
 
 O precious monument of that good time. 
 When Martin still was at his Master's work. 
 And seed well sown by blessed Hilary 
 Was gladdening Angels by its glorious fruit ! 
 
 * Harvey on the Three Creeds, ii. 577,
 
 ST. GERVAIS, ROUEN. 137 
 
 O famous Church of France ! in this thy day 
 Of loyal strife with Satan's ministers, 
 Whose courtesies, more odious than their scorn *, 
 Blaspheme thy Lord and God, both thine and ours, 
 What best will serve thee ? Not the Marian zeal 
 That finds at Bon Secours its own high place ; 
 That fond perversion of His Mother's name, 
 Wronging His work. His love, His majesty. 
 Weakening the weakness of His little ones, 
 And further yet estranging minds estranged ; — 
 But that pure, manful, thoughtful faith and love. 
 That grand intensity of Christian force. 
 That knowledge of their country's deepest need, 
 Whereby thine ancient heroes, preaching Christ 
 In His Incarnate fulness, fought and won. 
 
 He that revives His work in midst of years 
 Can give whate'er He wills to us and thee. 
 
 * See Dr. Pusey on Daniel, p. 30.
 
 X38 ST. GERVAIS, ROUEN. 
 
 O more and more to Saints of either land 
 May He fulfil His promise ; " I will pour 
 My Spirit on thy seed !" 
 
 And who, meanwhile, 
 Holding the faith of Christ, could set his feet 
 In that historic city, where the past 
 So mingles with the present, nor take home 
 The true, true lesson, which we that day read 
 In her Archbishop's annual pastoral, 
 Fixed on a pillar of St. Vincent's church ? 
 "' Lo, all things change, and all things pass away, 
 And all things die, but faith, and hope, and love ; 
 These die not, brethren ! O how all around, 
 All divers turns of life, conspire to show 
 That prodigality of tenderness 
 Wherewith our God entreats us — Come to Me ! "
 
 Cfje Scillitan iMartgrs. 
 
 pWAS in July * in Claudius' consulate, 
 At Carthage, when the Court was duly met, 
 Speratus and his fellows, brethren twain 
 And sisters three, were cited to attend. 
 
 Then Satuminus the Proconsul spake ; 
 '* Ye may win pardon from Severus, and 
 From Antoninus, Emperors both, and Lords, 
 By turning to our gods with right good will." 
 Speratus said, " We never Avrought a crime, 
 Nor followed after aught of wickedness. 
 Nor spake to any man an evil word. 
 
 * About A. D. 200. The lines are a translation from Ruinart's 
 " Acta Sincera."
 
 140 THE SCJLLITAN MARTYRS. 
 
 'Tis you that did us wrong, while we have still 
 
 Been rendering thanks ; for He whom we adore 
 
 Is the true King and Lord." "High-bred axe we," 
 
 Quoth Satuminus, " courteous and refined 5 
 
 And by the genius of our lord we swear, 
 
 And for his weal make vows — and why not ye 1 " 
 
 Speratus said, " Lend me a quiet ear, — 
 
 Our mystery of meekness thou shalt learn." 
 
 " Tell out thy mystery ; I will harm thee not ; 
 
 Swear only by the genius of our lord." 
 
 " The genius of the Emperor of this world 
 
 I know not ; but I serve my God in heaven, 
 
 Whom no man e'er hath seen, nor e'er can see. 
 
 My hands are clean of theft ; whate'er I buy, 
 
 I pay the Emperor tribute, for I know 
 
 He is my lord ; but worship give I none 
 
 Save to my Lord, the King of kings, and Lord 
 
 Of all the nations." The Proconsul said, 
 
 " Peace to the tumult of your restless tongues !
 
 THE SCILLITAN MARTYRS. 141 
 
 Draw near, and to the gods do sacrifice." 
 " Nay," said Speratus; " evil restlessness 
 Is that which leads to taking of men's lives, 
 And slanderous charges." 
 
 Turning to the rest. 
 Spake the Proconsul ; "Do not ye take part 
 In this man's frantic folly ; rather fear 
 Our sovereign, and his ordinance obey." 
 Answered Cittinus; " We have none to fear 
 Save Him that is in heaven, the Lord our God." 
 Then the Proconsul ; " Thrust them down again 
 Into the dungeon ; set them in tlie stocks 
 Until the morrow." 
 
 "When the morrow came. 
 On his tribunal the Proconsul sat, 
 And had them brought before him. There they 
 
 stood ; 
 Then spake he to the women ; " Pay regard 
 Unto our sovereign, and do sacrifice."
 
 142 THE SCILLITAN MARTYRS. 
 
 Donata said, "We render honour due 
 
 To Caesar, as to Caesar ; to our God 
 
 Honour and prayer." Vestina, standing, spake ; 
 
 " I am a Christian too." Secunda next ; 
 
 "And I too, I believe in mine own God, 
 
 Desiring to be found in Him ; thy gods 
 
 We will not serve nor worship." 
 
 Hearing this, 
 He bade them to be kept apart awhile, 
 Then called the men, and to Speratus said ; 
 " Dost thou persist in being Christian still % " 
 "Yea," said Speratus; "yea, I do persist; 
 And hear ye all, — a Christian man am I." 
 Then all that with him had been put in ward 
 Heard his confession, and gave full assent, 
 Saying, " We too are Christians, e'en as he." 
 Then the Proconsul ; " Have ye then no mind 
 To take fresh counsel, or to gain reprieve ?" 
 Answered Speratus ; " In a righteous strife
 
 THE SCILLITAN MARTYRS. 143 
 
 Reprieve is none. Do even as thou wilt ; 
 Since we for Christ will die rejoicingly." 
 Spake the Proconsul; "Say what books are those 
 That ye with reverence read]" "The Gospels 
 
 four," 
 He answered, " of our Master Jesus Christ, 
 And the Epistles of the Apostle Paul, 
 And every Scripture book inspired of God." 
 Then the Proconsul spake ; " I grant you now 
 Space of three days, for coming to your mind." 
 Speratus answered; "Christians are we all, 
 I and these with me ; and we will not swerve 
 From the true faith of Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 Do what thou wilt." 
 
 He saw their stedfast mind, 
 Their faith unshaken ; and he bade his scribe 
 Write down the doom: "All these" (he named 
 
 them all) 
 " As Christians self-declared, and to our lord
 
 144 THE SCILLITAN MARTYRS. 
 
 Refusing to give honour and respect, 
 
 I sentence to beheading." Soon as this 
 
 Was from the tablet read, Speratus spake, 
 
 And his companions with him ; " Thanks to God, 
 
 Who deigns this day in Heaven to welcome us. 
 
 As Martyrs, for confession of His Name." 
 
 This said, they led them forth. With one accord 
 They bent their knees, and when a second time 
 They had given thanks to Christ, the head of each 
 Was stricken off. 
 
 'Twas in the month July, 
 The seventeenth day, that they were consummate 
 As Cluist's true Martyrs ; and they plead for us 
 To Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom be given, 
 With God the Father and the Holy Ghost, 
 Honour and glory evermore. Amen.
 
 €\^t Vimn of Saturus*. 
 
 HIS was my vision. We had sufifered all, 
 Had passed from out the flesh, and had 
 begun 
 A journey eastward, borne by Angels four, 
 Albeit with their hands they touched us not. 
 They bore us, yet we moved not as supine. 
 But as men do that climb a gentle slope. 
 
 * About 202. Translated from Ruinart.
 
 146 THE VISION OF SATURUS. 
 
 And Avhen set free from earth, we first beheld 
 A light immense ; and to Perpetua then, 
 For she was by my side, " Behold," I said, 
 " What the Lord promised ; now 'tis ours indeed." 
 And while the Angels bore us on, we reached 
 A mighty space, as 'twere of garden ground, 
 Where rose-trees grew, and every kind of flower. 
 The trees were like the cypress for their height, 
 And ceaseless fell their leaves. And there we 
 
 found 
 Four other Angels, brighter than the rest, 
 Who, seeing, did us honour, and exclaimed, 
 Admiring, to their fellows, " Lo ! they come, 
 They come !" Whereon the four that carried us 
 Were struck with awe, and set us on our feet ; 
 And so we fared along, a stadium's length, 
 On a broad way, and met Astaxius, 
 Jocundus, Saturninus, Martyrs all 
 In this same persecution, burnt alive,
 
 THE VISION OF SATURUS. 147 
 
 With Quintus, who himself a Martyr died 
 While yet in prison ; and we asked of them 
 Where dwelt the rest. But then the Angels spake ; 
 " Come first and enter in, and greet the Lord." 
 
 Then came we near a place whereof the walls 
 Seemed built of light ; and at the gateway stood 
 Four Angels, who on all that entered in 
 Put garments white. So clad, we entered in, 
 And saw a light immense, and heard a sound 
 Of many voices, that unceasingly 
 Cried " Agios ! Agios! Agios!" In the midst 
 We saw One seated, like a white-haired man. 
 With snowy hair and youthful countenance, 
 Whose feet we saw not. On His left and right 
 Were four-and-twenty elders ; at their back 
 Stood many others. And we entered in 
 Greatly amazed, and stood before the Throne : 
 And the four Angels held us up, and then 
 
 L 3
 
 148 THE VISION OF SATURUS. 
 
 We kissed Him, and He passed His hand across 
 
 Our faces. Then the other elders spake ; 
 
 " Let us stand up." We stood ; the Peace went 
 
 round. 
 Again they said to us, " Go forth, and play." 
 Then I ; " Perpetua, now thou hast thy wish." 
 " Yea, thanks to God," she answered ; " in the 
 
 flesh 
 Right glad I was, but now still gladder here." 
 
 So passed we forth 
 
 And standing at the gate, 
 We came to know by face a multitude 
 Of brethren and of Martyrs ; and we all 
 Drank in a fragrance rich beyond all words, 
 That satisfied all cravings, e'en like food. 
 Then I awoke rejoicing.
 
 St dFructuosus. 
 
 N the Lord's day the soldiers came to seek 
 The Bishop Fructuosus *. Now he sat 
 In his bed-chamber. When the lictor's wand 
 Smote on the door, he tarried not, but rose 
 With sUppered feet, went forth, and faced the men. 
 
 "Come," said they, "thou art summoned to 
 appear, 
 Thou and thy Deacons." " Let us go," he said ; 
 
 * Bishop of Tarragona: martyred Jan. 21, 259. Translated 
 from Ruinart.
 
 ISO ST. FRUCTUOSUS. 
 
 " But let me put the shoes upon my feet." 
 " E'en as thou wilt," they answered. 
 
 So he passed 
 Within the prison, joyful and assured 
 Of the Lord's crown to which he had been called, 
 And prayed, and did not cease. And with him 
 
 there 
 Were brethren that to him did minister, 
 Praying that he would bear them in his mind. 
 And one day, in the prison, he baptized 
 Rogatian, now our brother. 
 
 Six days passed ; 
 And on the Friday, with his Deacons, he 
 Was brought to trial. 
 
 Then ^milian spake. 
 The Prseses ; '' Bring ye Fructuosus here, 
 Augurius, and Eulogius." " They attend." 
 Then he ; " The Emperor's mandate ye have 
 
 heard."
 
 ST. FRUCTUOSUS. 151 
 
 Answered the Bishop ; " Naught of that I know ; 
 I am a Christian." "They have given command 
 To adore the gods." "The One God I adore, 
 Who made the heaven and earth, the sea, and 
 
 all 
 That therein is." " Thou knowest there be gods ?"' 
 " I know not." " Soon thou shali know." 
 
 To our Lord 
 The Bishop looked, and inly 'gan to pray, 
 ^milian spake ; " Who then are heard, who feared, 
 Who worshipped, if the gods be not adored, 
 Nor homage to the Emperor's likeness done ?" 
 Then to Augurius ; " Do not thou give heed 
 To Fructuosus." " I adore," said he, 
 " The God Almighty." To Eulogius next ; 
 " Dost thou, too, worship Fructuosus ?" " No, 
 But Him whom Fructuosus' self adores." 
 
 To Fmctuosus then ^milian said.
 
 J 52 ST. FRUCTUOSUS. 
 
 "Art thou a Bishop?" "Yea, I am." "Thou 
 
 wast." 
 And straight he doomed them to be burned aHve. 
 
 Then Fructuosus, with his Deacons twain, 
 Into the amphitheatre was led, 
 The people mourning for him : such deep love 
 Not from the brethren only had he won. 
 But e'en from Heathen ; such a man he was, 
 As by the Gentiles' teacher, blessed Paul, 
 The Holy Ghost had shown he ought to be. 
 And for this very cause the brethren all. 
 Who knew to what high glory he was bound. 
 Felt less of grief than joy. Many there were 
 That in fraternal kindness offered them 
 A cup of mingled drink ; but he replied, 
 " Not yet has come the hour to break the fast." 
 For it was then the fourth hour of the day ; 
 And on the Wednesday, in their prison-house,
 
 ST. FRUCTUOSUS. 153 
 
 They in due order had the Station kept. 
 
 So on the Friday, calm of heart and glad, 
 
 He hasted, that in Christ's own Paradise 
 
 (Which He for those that love Him hath prepared), 
 
 With Martyrs and with Prophets he might feast 
 
 And break his Station. 
 
 When they reached the place. 
 His Reader, Augustalis, straightway came. 
 And, weeping, begged that he might loose his shoes. 
 Answered the blessed Martyr, " Nay, my son ; 
 Let be ; myself will loose them ; strong am I, 
 Joyful and well assured of what the Lord 
 Hath promised." When his shoes were off, there 
 
 came 
 Our fellow-soldier, of the brethren one, 
 Felix by name, and clasping his right hand. 
 Craved of the Bishop to remember him. 
 Then with a loud voice, so that all might hear. 
 The holy Bishop answered ; " I must needs
 
 154 ST. FRUCTUOSUS. 
 
 Be mindful of the whole Church Catholic, 
 From East to West outspread." 
 
 And standing there, 
 Just on the verge of entering to receive 
 The wreath unfading, rather than the doom. 
 Watched by the soldiers, by the brethren heard. 
 The Holy Spirit prompting him at once 
 And speaking in him, Fructuosus said ; 
 " Ye will not lack a Pastor ; and the love 
 And promise of our Lord will never fail. 
 Here or hereafter. For what now ye see 
 Seems but a sickness lasting for an hour." 
 
 So gave he comfort to the brethren round, 
 And with his comrades to salvation passed ; 
 Most worthy, and in very martyrdom 
 Happy to find the promise true, and feel 
 The Holy Scriptures' profit. They were like 
 To Azarias and his fellows twain,
 
 ST. FRUCTUOSUS. 155 
 
 For in them, too, the Presence was discerned 
 
 Of the All-holy Trinity ; for Avhen 
 
 They stood within the fire, the Father gave 
 
 His help, the Son was near to comfort them, 
 
 The Holy Spirit walked amid the flame. 
 
 And when the bands that held their hands were 
 
 burnt. 
 Mindful of prayer, and of their use and wont, 
 They bent their knees, rejoicing, well assured 
 Of Resurrection ; and with outstretched arms, 
 In token of the trophy of the Lord, 
 They poured out prayers to Him, and ceased not. 
 Until their three souls all went forth as one.
 
 ^ijeotiore of antioci)*- 
 
 EFORE Apollo's altar 
 In Daphne's sacred wood, 
 With visage pale and anxious 
 
 The crowned Apostate stood ; 
 By slaughtered bulls, and incense, 
 
 And many a choral strain, 
 He craved response from Phoebus,- 
 For hours he sought in vain. 
 
 * See Soc. iii. i8, 19. Soz. v. 19, 20.
 
 THEODORE OF ANTIOCH. 157 
 
 Like Baal's priests on Carmel, 
 
 For fire-sign struggling hard, 
 So found he none to answer, 
 
 Nor any to regard ; 
 Till trembling, as with anguish, 
 
 At length the pontiff said, 
 " If thou wouldst end his silence, 
 
 First take thou hence the Dead. 
 
 " For know, thy brother Gallus 
 
 Erewhile the coffin laid 
 Of Babylas the Bishop 
 
 Within this holy glade :" 
 " No marvel," Julian answered, 
 
 That no response might come ; 
 Go, warn the Galileans 
 
 To bear the carcase home."
 
 158 THEODORE OF ANTIOCH. 
 
 We heard, we rushed from Antioch, 
 
 Our buried Saint we found ; 
 High on a car we raised him, 
 
 With chanters gathering round ; 
 And forth the Psahii went thundering, 
 
 " Confounded be all they 
 That worship carved images, 
 
 To gods of stone that pray !" 
 
 The Tyrant heard, and quivered 
 
 With mingled wrath and fear ; 
 " Haste, bid the Prefect Sallust 
 
 Before our throne appear." 
 He came, and heard the mandate ; 
 
 "Avenge me on that crew ! 
 Let those that scorn the Immortals 
 
 Their pride in torments rue."
 
 THEODORE OF ANTIOCH. 159 
 
 A Heathen man was Sallust, 
 
 Enslaved to Caesar's will ; 
 Yet loth in Christian Antioch 
 
 Such bidding to fulfil. 
 Since vain were prayer and counsel 
 
 To move that soul accurst, 
 He stretched his hand for victims, 
 
 And seized on me, the first. 
 
 To that fell Horse of torture 
 
 Affixed at prime of morn, 
 I hung till hour of vespers, 
 
 All mangled, wrenched, and torn ; 
 Yet still had strength for chanting. 
 
 " Confounded be all they 
 That worship carved images, 
 
 To gods of stone that pray ! "
 
 i6o THEODORE OF ANTIOCH. 
 
 Ah ! marvel not, Rufinus ; 
 
 I am but flesh and blood ; 
 My pangs at first were grievous, 
 
 But soon beside me stood 
 A young man, tall and beauteous,- 
 
 O friend, believe me now ! — 
 Who wiped with cool soft hnen 
 
 The sweat from off my brow. 
 
 In that sweet Angel-presence 
 
 The pain could scarce abide ; 
 He sprinkled water o'er me. 
 
 He stirred not from my side. 
 Till Sallust bade them loose me 
 
 Just ere the close of day ; 
 And I could scarce be thankful. 
 
 For then he passed away.
 
 THEODORE OF ANTIOCH. i6i 
 
 Unmeet for healing wonders, 
 
 A sinful man was I j 
 But God may well show tokens 
 
 When kings His Christ defy. 
 Be Christ Himself my witness, 
 
 That thus He sent me aid, 
 Who of the doomed Apostate 
 
 That dire example made. 
 
 M
 
 (Efie ISattle of ITarna*, 
 
 |ING Ladislas sat with his peers at the 
 board, 
 When the peace was made fast with the Moslemah's 
 
 Lord ; 
 All welcomed the pledge, " To the first sight of 
 
 home ! " 
 All, save Father Julian, the Legate of Rome. 
 
 With his stern glooming brows 'midst the banquet 
 
 he rose — 
 " On your compact with Death be confusion and 
 
 woes ! 
 
 * A.D. 1444. See Gibbon, vili. 130. These lines are re- 
 printed from the " Englishman's Magazine."
 
 THE BATTLE OF VARNA. x^;^ 
 
 Who keeps the foul peace, on the Cross he hath 
 
 trod ; 
 Break faith with Mahound, or be faithless to God. 
 
 " Your swords might have guarded the Constantines' 
 
 seat, 
 But ye cast loose the quarry that swooned at your 
 
 feet ; 
 Ho, ye that spare Agag, for Baal that plead, 
 Trow ye God hath no vengeance, and traitors no 
 
 meed? 
 
 "There were days when the Hermit of Amiens 
 
 outspoke, 
 And chanting, ' God wills it ! ' all Christendom woke ; 
 O who shall rekindle the light that. has fled? 
 There were days — they are gone ! there were men 
 
 — they are dead ! 
 
 M %
 
 i64 THE BATTLE OF VARNA. 
 
 " But ye swore on the Gospels ? Our Lady forefend 
 Her Son's Name should make His worst foeman 
 
 your friend : 
 'Tis the Pontiff, His Vicar, that cancels your vow, 
 That speaks by my voice ; will ye hesitate now i " 
 
 His proud eye flashed round, but no murmur replied, 
 Till sudden, "God wills it!" King Ladislas cried ; 
 " Thou hast conquered. Lord Legate ! next morn, 
 
 by the Rood, 
 We'll redden yon treaty in Amurath's blood. 
 
 "Mount, Knights, for the Cross !" To the saddle 
 they sprang ; 
 
 Through the tents at deep midnight the trumpet- 
 call rang ; 
 
 See the arms, newly donned, in the morning-beam 
 glow. 
 
 As the tempest of Christendom bursts on the foe !
 
 THE BATTLE OF VARNA. 165 
 
 Cries the Legate, as backward the Moslems recoil, 
 " They flee, and our household divideth the spoil !" 
 To the Soldan grey warriors are muttering, " 'Tis 
 
 o'er ! " 
 But he speaks, calm and solemn — " I've one weapon 
 
 more." 
 
 From the folds of his mantle the Treaty he drew, 
 With a king's written pledge that the peace should 
 
 be true ; 
 "As we keep faith and troth, brother Soldan, with 
 
 thee, 
 So help us our Helper, the Son of Marie." 
 
 In the pure face of Heaven he raised it on high, 
 To plead for revenge on the Nazarene's lie ; 
 Then lifted his voice — to Mohammed for aid 
 'Twas to Issa Ben Mariam the Infidel prayed.
 
 i66 THE BATTLE OF VARNA. 
 
 " Hear, God of the Christians, by Christians defied ! 
 By Thy Name they have sworn — by Thy Name 
 
 they have lied : 
 If Thou art what they deem Thee, look forth from 
 
 Thy throne, 
 And do right to my wrongs in avenging Thine o\vn." 
 
 Lo the Turks, how they rally, when sorest bestead ! 
 How their " La-illah " peals, and their sabres glow 
 
 red! 
 Is Michael's own force in each Moslem to-day, 
 That they turn their pursuers to flight and dismay % 
 
 And the Legate rides fast — but he spurreth in vain 
 Who rides from God's wrath ! — see him stretched on 
 
 the plain. 
 With a doom written deep in those features of woe, 
 " Who are false for the Truth, have the Truth for 
 
 their foe."
 
 ^ EratJttion of OTullcitien. 
 
 HEY found him on Culloden heath, 
 
 A sight for soldiers' tears ; 
 His beauty all too strong for death, 
 
 His life but twenty years ; 
 They muttered low, " God send him grace ! " 
 
 The gory plaid they drew 
 For corpse-hood o'er the fair, proud face, 
 
 And eyes of lustrous blue. 
 
 They bore him past an ancient hall, 
 
 Deep set in vernal trees ; 
 The Lady looks o'er terrace wall, 
 
 The heavy sight she sees ;
 
 1 68 A TRADITION OF CULLODEN. 
 
 Her only son, in Urquhart-glen, 
 With kinsmen bides afar ; 
 
 She will not call him home again, 
 Till sinks the blast of war. 
 
 Her joy is in that precious life 
 
 Fenced round and kept secure 
 From gathering clans and deadly strife, 
 
 And dark Drummossie-muir ; 
 " Far other weird was thine, poor youth ! " 
 
 She bids the bearers wait ; 
 Her bosom thrills with woman's ruth, 
 
 Her hand unbars the gate. 
 
 She looks upon the long bright hair, 
 
 And fast her tears outflow ; 
 "Some mother's heart, my darling fair, 
 
 Beside thee lieth low !
 
 A TRADITION OF CULLODEN. 169 
 
 God's kindness cheer that stricken heart ! 
 
 He hath been kind to me ; 
 Else, haply, e'en as now thou art, 
 
 So might my Ronald be." 
 
 Her own soft hands the corpse will streek : 
 
 She draws the plaid away : — 
 Comes ghastly whiteness o'er her. cheek, 
 
 Her lips are cold as clay ; 
 Ah ! close her arms the dead enfold, 
 
 Her lips to his are pressed ; 
 The mother's heart lies still and cold 
 
 Upon her Ronald's breast.
 
 ILouts tlje SfiJenteentfj. 
 
 |AS he a King of France % He never sat 
 Wrapt in blue robes, on throne high- 
 • canopied 
 And bright with golden lilies ; ne'er for him 
 In long procession from St. Remi's Church, 
 Through the old sacred city's crowded streets. 
 To that sublime Cathedral porch was borne 
 The oil that blessed the long-lived Monarchy, 
 In the Ampoule of Clovis. Ne'er for him, 
 As having " grasped the guidance of the realm,"
 
 LOUIS THE SEVENTEENTH. 171 
 
 Through Notre Dame rang out the choral prayer. 
 Versailles ne'er called him master ; no behest 
 Of his, from Bed of Justice proudly given 
 In the Grand Chamber of the Parliament, 
 Fixed on the rolls his absolute decree. 
 No private wrath, armed with his manual sign, 
 Darkened the dark Bastille with new despair. 
 Nor wars he made, nor peace ; no rival Court 
 His policy discussed, his envoys heard. 
 No courtier prelate to his lofty stall 
 Bowed, ere he spoke the message of a King 
 That ne'er accepteth persons ; by his bed. 
 When hope was o'er, no Almoner appeared. 
 From jewelled pyx to draw the Host, and breathe 
 The " Ecce Agnus " in his dying ear. 
 And say " Inchna " o'er the shrouded corpse. 
 Ere yet St. Denis' vault should claim its own *. 
 
 * See Carlyle, Fr. Rev. i. 28. 31.
 
 173 LOUIS THE SEVENTEENTH. 
 
 He King of France ? that woeful captive boy, 
 Torn from his mother's arms, and made the prey 
 Of a coarse ruffian with a tyrant's heart, 
 Fit for his fiendish task, to brutahze 
 And slay by inches Louis Capet's son ; 
 Or freed from those base hands, but left to lie 
 In sickness, filth, and killing solitude, 
 Pent in a den with foulest vapours rank, 
 As if some pest were holding revel there ; 
 Then, all too late, to gentler guards consigned, 
 Who could but faintly cheer his last decay. 
 Teach him^that earth had still some kindness left. 
 And win some fragments of slow mournful speech, 
 " And yet I ne'er did harm to any one " — 
 " Ah ! let me see he)- once before I die !" 
 
 Yet many owned him King ; all Europe o'er. 
 Princes or subjects, whoso loathed or feared 
 The wild Republic, for his rescue prayed.
 
 LOUIS THE SEVENTEENTH. ij3 
 
 His uncle, with an exile's parody 
 
 Of princely state, assumed the formal style 
 
 Of Regent of his kingdom. King he was 
 
 To emigrants, in England finding bread ; 
 
 To royalists suspected or proscribed. 
 
 Gentle or simple, hidden, hunted, caught, 
 
 Flung into dungeons, mocked with trial-forms 
 
 At Tinville's bar, or bound to Sanson's plank, — 
 
 Or living through the Terror, strangely safe j 
 
 To Toulon, when she welcomed England's flag ; 
 
 To those high faithful hearts in La Vendee, 
 
 That coupled in one joyous battle-cry 
 
 His name with God's. Ah ! could he but have heard 
 
 The shout that startled Dol, when from their knees 
 
 Men rose absolved, and rushed upon the foe — 
 
 " God save the King ! We march to Paradise ! " 
 
 Or known the simple wish that, victory won, 
 
 And France through them to loyal peace restored, 
 
 The Seventeenth Louis, of his regal grace,
 
 174 LOUIS THE SEVENTEENTH. 
 
 Would deign but once to visit La Vendee ! 
 
 Ah ! many a King of France might well have given 
 
 Whole years of pomp or conquest, but to gain 
 
 Place in the prayers and hopes and dying thoughts 
 
 Of men like " Anjou's Saint," Cathehneau, 
 
 Or Bonchamps, true to mercy e'en in death, 
 
 Or such a sweet-souled hero as Lescure ! 
 
 And History gives their helpless, crownless Liege 
 His station in the grand old dynasty 
 That sprang from Hugh of Paris. Past and gone 
 Is all the splendour of the Fleur-de-lis ; 
 But in the Louvre, where an Emperor's care 
 Hoards many a relic of old majesties, 
 A little plaything cannon bears the name 
 Of the young Seventeenth Louis. 
 
 Let him keep 
 That title, his by blood, and — better still — 
 His by a nature which no barbarous wrongs
 
 LOUIS THE SEVENTEENTH. 175 
 
 Could e'er make quite unroyal. Simon once, 
 (Who saw him kneel upon his wretched bed, 
 And join his hands as if in act to pray, 
 Then with demoniac fury fell on him 
 For " saying Paternosters like a monk," — 
 And whom, ere long, the axe of Thermidor 
 Sent to the judgment of the orphan's God,) 
 This Simon asked him, " Could the brigands' force 
 Enthrone thee France's monarch, how wouldst 
 
 thou 
 Deal with me, Wolf-cub ?" " I would pardon you." 
 
 There spoke the heart of a Most Christian King. 
 O guiltless victim ! dreamed we of a God 
 In whose decrees were nought unsearchable, 
 Whose working must be measured, weighed, and 
 
 squared 
 Precisely with what men call good and just. 
 How should we look on such a fate as thine ?
 
 176 LOUIS THE SEVENTEENTH. 
 
 But minds that frame such idol-god as this 
 Know not the Saviour's Cross, the Christian's 
 
 Heaven ; 
 And thou, St. Louis' heir, whose feeble breath. 
 Just flitting from the poor exhausted form. 
 Spoke of sweet music and thy mother's voice, 
 Hast been in Paradise these seventy years *. 
 
 * He died June 8, 1795.
 
 ^1)0 ©tigsiseg, I. 1—95* 
 
 ING, Muse, the change-tried man who 
 wandered far, 
 Since o'er Troy town he brought the storm of war ; 
 Saw many a people's burgh, and learned their mind, 
 And crossed the deep, to many a woe resigned. 
 Striving his hfe to save, and home to bear 
 His comrades ; yet not all his love and care 
 Could save them ; by their own self-will undone, 
 Fools ! they devoured the cattle of the Sun, 
 Who therefore doomed them ne'er their home to 
 see : 
 
 * Reprinted from the "Englishman's Magazine." 
 
 N
 
 178 . THE ODYSSEY, I. 1—95. 
 
 Of this, beginning where it pleaseth thee, 
 O Zeus-born Goddess, tell the tale to me. 
 
 Now all the chiefs who 'scaped destruction's 
 steep, 
 At home were safe from battle and the deep ; 
 Save him, for wife and home with longing pained, 
 Him, whom Calypso in her caves detained, 
 Fair nymph and goddess, fain her guest to wed. 
 Yet, when revolving years the season sped 
 For his home-journey by the Gods decreed. 
 Not yet from trials was the sufferer freed, 
 Nor with his loved ones. But the Immortals rued 
 His lot ; save one, whose ceaseless wrath pursued 
 Godlike Odysseus, till his land he won. 
 But to the .^thiops was Poseidon gone, 
 Who dwell at earth's two ends, in west and east, 
 On hecatomb of sheep and bulls to feast.
 
 THE ODYSSEY, I. 1—95. 179 
 
 There sate he, joyous ; while his fellows all 
 Were gathered in the Olympian Father's hall, 
 Who of ^gisthus' death himself bethought, 
 By Agamemnon's heir Orestes wrought ; 
 This he, beginning, to their memory brought. 
 
 ' " Lo ye ! what blame on Gods do mortals throw ! 
 From us, they ween, from us their evils flow ; 
 While they in their own wilfulness create 
 New sorrows, more than all assigned by fate. 
 So took ^gisthus, not by fateful doom, 
 Atreides' wife, and when her lord came home 
 Slew him, well knowing woes that should betide ; 
 For we had warned him by the Argicide, 
 ' Thou shalt not slay the king, nor court his wife ; 
 Else vengeance shall arise against thy life. 
 Soon as Orestes shall his country seek 
 In strength of manhood.' Thus did Henities speak ; 
 
 N 2
 
 i8o , THE ODYSSEY, I. 1—95. 
 
 But the good counsel ne'er ^Egisthus swayed- 
 And now, at once, all forfeits he hath paid." 
 
 Athene, blue-eyed Goddess, made reply : 
 " O Father, Cronos-born, of powers most high, 
 Surely his death was his befitting meed. 
 And so die all who imitate his deed ! 
 But for Odysseus is my soul opprest, 
 Woe-worn, and far from all who love him best. 
 In a lone isle, the centre of the seas. 
 Where, in her mansion sheltered round by trees, 
 Abides a Goddess, crafty Atlas' child, 
 (Atlas, who knows the deep's recesses wild. 
 And grasps the pillars tall that hold apart 
 The earth and Heaven) ; 'tis she that breaks the 
 
 heart 
 Of her sad captive, fondling him the while 
 With ceaseless words of blandishment and guile,
 
 THE ODYSSEY, I. 1—95. 181 
 
 To make Odysseus Ithaca forget : 
 In vain ! on that dear isle his mind is set ; 
 Could he but see its smoke's ascending wreath, 
 Hushed were his longings — he would welcome death. 
 And has thy heart no pity for this pain ? 
 Did he not please thee oft with victims slain 
 Beside the Argive fleet, on Trojan shore ? 
 Why then in wrath afflict him evermore'?" 
 
 To whom the God that drives the stormy cloud : 
 '* O daughter, why are words like these allowed 
 To pass thy lips % Bethink thee, could I e'er 
 Forget the great Odysseus, past compare 
 Wisest of men, and heedfullest to give 
 Due sacrifice to those in Heaven that live 
 For ever % No — 'tis all Poseidon's ire, 
 The earth-surrounding God, the indignant sire 
 Of him whom thine Odysseus hath made blind, 
 Huge Polyphemus, chief of Cyclop kind,
 
 i82 THE ODYSSEY, I. 1—95. 
 
 Whom nymph Thoosa bore (the daughter she 
 Of Phorcys, ruler of the unfruitful sea), 
 Who met Poseidon in a cavern's grot. 
 Since then the stern Earth-shaker slays him not, 
 But keeps him still a wanderer from his home. 
 But now, that he to Ithaca may come, 
 'Tis meet we all in council here combine ; 
 So must Poseidon needs his wrath resign, 
 For vainly, if apart he stands as one. 
 Against the Immortals will he strive alone." 
 
 To him the blue-eyed Goddess made reply : 
 " O Father, Cronos-born, of powers most high, 
 If now indeed the blest ones will it so, 
 That wise Odysseus to his home should go. 
 To send our envoy, Hermes, it were well 
 Unto Ogygia's island, straight to tell 
 The fair-haired nymph our council's firm decree, 
 That the long-patient chief restored shall be
 
 THE ODYSSEY, I. 1—95. 
 
 183 
 
 To Ithaca : and thither I repair, 
 
 To kindle force and spirit in his heir ; 
 
 Who, roused to act, shall to the assembly call 
 
 The long-haired Greeks, and bid the suitors all 
 
 Pass forth from out his courts, where every day 
 
 His fatted sheep and horned beeves they slay. 
 
 Then will I send him o'er the wave, to learn 
 
 Haply some tidings of his sire's return, 
 
 At sandy Pylos, and at Sparta's town, 
 
 And gain in all men's eyes a fair renown."
 
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 Contents of No. 10, for October, 1865. 
 
 1. The Sea-side. By George Tugwell, M.A., Author of'A Manual 
 
 of tlie Sea Anemones." II. Down among the Tangles. 
 
 2. Harvest Home. 
 
 3. Stbay Thoughts on Failttres. 
 
 4. Some Account of Baeeack-Life in India. By an Officer 
 
 there. 
 
 5. Canteebuet and the Peimates. 
 
 6. The Oephan Choeistee. 
 
 7. The Old Pagoda Teee. A Story in Five Parts. By lUiuhis T. 
 
 Prichard, Author of " Soio to Manage it," " Mutinies in Baj- 
 footana," Sfc. 
 
 Part III. Chapter VII.— A Friend in Need. 
 
 Chapter VIII. — The Temple-cave. 
 
 Chapter IX. — Captivity. 
 
 8. The Powee of Thought. Imitated from Calderon. By Arch- 
 
 deacon Chiirton. 
 
 9. Man before Histoex. By T. G. Bonney, M.A., F.G.S. IL 
 
 The Lakes, Shores, and Morasses. 
 
 10. "We Are." 
 
 11. St. Charles Boeromeo. 
 
 12. Eenderings feom the German. — Song of Liberty. — The Night 
 
 Ride. 
 
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