Opis: Love Letters of a Priest (Classic Reprint) - Russell Patricia Lindsay

Excerpt from Love Letters of a Priest

Sacrificium

(Orate, - , ut meum ac vestrum sacrificium acceptabile fiat apud Deum Patrem Omnipotentem.)

I see him offer up the Mass
Upon the altar, as I pass
Through the old chapel once again.
The flowers blur, the tapers wane,
Faint incense floats and fills the air.
The folk are kneeling low at prayer.

Within a shadowed niche I stand.
And beat my breast at the command
Of tinkling bell and muttered word.
Low rumbling as of thunder stirred,
From those who reverent kneel and pray,
(As I did in Youth's Yesterday.)

Upon her shrine the Virgin stands
With upturned face and outflung hands.
Her painted eyes unseeing stare
At me whose lips can form no prayer.
(Mother of Sorrows! Can I pray
He offers up the Mass to-day.)

The lilies blur against the wall.
I hear a far-off curlew call
From out the fragrant wild Bush-heart.
(O Love that sears, O Laws that part)
Here in this Church, know ye who pray,
The Double Sacrifice to-day

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Szczegóły: Love Letters of a Priest (Classic Reprint) - Russell Patricia Lindsay

Nazwa: Love Letters of a Priest (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Russell Patricia Lindsay
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330647417
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 158
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

Recenzje: Love Letters of a Priest (Classic Reprint) - Russell Patricia Lindsay