But with those words the old man broke down; and the father and mother wept together.
CHAPTER XIX.
LEO AND ATTILA—THE RESCUE OF ROME.
Sadly and slowly after that the terrible days and weeks passed on. The great festivals of the Church were over. The daily festival of the perpetual Eucharist indeed went on with its ceaseless pleading of Redeeming death, and ceaseless participation of the ever-renewing Life, its blending of triumph and of tender tears, “Pretium et poculum,” for ever.
And day and night in Ethne’s heart Patrick’s hymn still made melody—
“Christ in the fort; Christ on the sea; Christ above, beneath, around, within, for ever.”