Of her great anguish, for delivery The Son of Sirach thus sums up the Song: "The Memory of famous men is rife, And redolent through ages late and long The Lord by them hath wrought great glory, through His power from the beginning, men among. Such as bear rule in realms, and bravely do, The eloquent, the active, and the true. The skilled in musick, and the subtlety Of numerous verse; rich men and graced with mind, The Glory of their times, they leave behind I Lest bold vain men be blasted with its light, He who upon her naked face might bear Thy Soul, oh Man! is her especial shrine; There find her, thou unto thyself shalt wake, And to thy God; for Heaven is her's and thine: Seek her in youth, nor yet in age forsake." XII. ADA M. As from a Throne, on the Hill's crested brow, His Children, to his voice attentive now. "God made not Death;..but what He made He blest, Whose Generations die not nor increase, Paternal Love! of old I loved Thy face, When dwelt Thy Word with Man, and was the Law I communed with Thy glory, and my heart Before Thee the huge World is as a grain And who shall question Thee, or judge Thee who? All Righteousness and Justice must ensue. But, mastering Thine omnipotence, broods o'er All Thy Creation Mercy uncreate, For Thou createdst all, and shalt restore. Father! Thy love to men shall not abate Thou will'st, they are; Thou speakst, and they endureLover of Souls! so they reciprocate. |