For we knew, like Monseigneurs the angels,

That God had been reconciled.

“So joyfully and with gladness

All softly we went our way,

And with many an old Te Deum

We tell the tale to-day.”

Then once more, like a chorus which even the children just beginning to talk seemed to know in part:

“For that we are glad and joyful

That good days are begun,

That the great God for a blessing