In quiet fields beyond the town, near where the river flows

There is a humble garden where a gentle rose-tree grows.

To-night Our Lord remembers on the altar of repose

This rose-tree in the fields afar, the mother of the rose.

THE TRANSFIGURATION

By James M. Hayes

He seeks the mountains where the olives grow,

The Lord of Glory, veiled in humble guise;

His soul is shadowed with a coming woe,

The grief of all the world is in His eyes: