His power and thine honor, we declare,
O Thou All-Fair, thou joy of Israel.
AT THE LEAP OF THE WATERS
By Edward F. Garesché, S.J.
How the swift river runs bright to its doom,
Placid and shining and smooth-flowing by,
Blue with the gleam of the heavenly room,
Smiling and calm with the smile of the sky!
Ah, but the plunge! and the shock and the roar,
The spray of vast waters that hurl to the deep,