Where, to my bliss, myself may meet

One hastening with piercèd feet.

OUR LADY’S DEATH

By Father Edmund, C.P.

And didst thou die, dear Mother of our Life?

Sin had no part in thee; then how should death?

Methinks, if aught the great tradition saith

Could wake in loving hearts a moment’s strife

(I said—my own with her new image rife),

’Twere this. And yet ’tis certain, next to faith