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