THE TRAIN OF RELIGION.

Stay awhile, thou blessed band! be entreated, daughters of heaven!

While the chance-met scholar of Wisdom learneth your sacred names:

He is resting a little from his toil, yet a little on the borders of earth,

And fain would he have you his friends, to bid him glad welcome hereafter.

Who among the glorious art thou, that walkest a Goddess and a Queen,

Thy crown of living stars, and a golden cross thy sceptre?

Who among flowers of loveliness is she, thy seeming herald,