And listened for His tread.

AN ELEGY, FOR FATHER ANSELM, OF THE ORDER OF REFORMED CISTERCIANS, GUEST-MASTER AND PARISH PRIEST

“Et pastores erant in regione eadem vigilantes”

By Helen Parry Eden

You to whose soul a death propitious brings

Its Heaven, who attain a windless bourne

Of sanctity beyond all sufferings,

It is not ours to mourn;

For you, to whom the earth could nothing give,

Who knew no hint of our inspired pride,