3 See! deep within the glowing depth of that Eternal Light, What change hath come, what vision new transports angelic sight? A creature can it be, in uncreated bliss? A novelty in God? O what nameless thing is this? The beauty of the Father's Power is o'er it brightly shed, The sweetness of the Spirit's Love is unction on its head; In the wisdom of the Son it plays its wondrous part, While it lives the loving life of a real Human Heart! 4 A Heart that hath a Mother, and a treasure of red Blood, A Heart that man can pray to, and feed upon for food! In the brightness of the Godhead is its marvellous abode, A change in the Unchanging, Creation touching God! Ye spirits blest, in endless rest, who on that Vision gaze, Salute the Sacred Heart with all your worshipful amaze, And adore, while with extatic skill the Three in One ye scan, The Mercy that hath planted there that blessed Heart of Man! 5 All tranquilly, all tranquilly, doth that Blissful Vision last, And Its brightness o'er immortalised creation will it cast; Ungrowing and unfading, Its pure Essence doth it keep, In the deepest of those depths where all are infinitely deep; Unchanging and unchangeable as It hath ever been, As It was before that Human Heart was there by angels seen, So is It at this very hour, so will It ever be, With that Human Heart within It, beating hot with love of me! 18. The Precious Blood. (FROM THE ITALIAN.) 1 HAIL, Jesus! hail! who for my sake O blessed be my Saviour's Blood, 2 To endless ages let us praise The Precious Blood, whose price could raise Whose streams our inward thirst appease, 3 O sweetest Blood, that can implore For those who wrong Him most. 4 Oh, to be sprinkled from the wells 5 Ah! there is joy amid the Saints, O louder then, and louder still, To all the faithful who say or sing the above Hymn, Pius VII. grants an indulgence of 100 days: applicable also to the souls in purgatory. 19. Communion. 10 HAPPY Flowers! O happy Flowers! O happy Flowers, what would I give 2 O happy Lights! O happy Lights! As each its faithful watch has done. 3 O happy Pyx! O happy Pyx! 4 O Pyx, and Lights, and Flowers! but I Nay, happy things! what will you do, The whole day long, the whole night through! So sweetly and so utterly, By rights long since I should have died 5 My happy Soul! my happy Soul ! O heaven, I think, must be alway 20. Thanksgiving after Communion. God of might and power! 2 Nature cannot hold Thee, 4 Yet the hearts of children Hold what worlds cannot, 5 As men to their gardens Seeks them at all hours. 6 Jesus, gentlest Saviour! 8 Multiply our graces, Chiefly love and fear, 9 Oh, how can we thank Thee 10 Ah! when wilt Thou always 11 Now at least we'll keep Thee 12 When our hearts Thou leavest, Give them to Thy Mother 21. The Immaculate Conception. PART I. 10 PUREST of creatures! sweet Mother! sweet Maid! The one spotless womb wherein Jesus was laid! Dark night hath come down on us, Mother! and we Look out for thy shining, sweet Star of the Sea! |