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XXXI. MATER CHRISTI.
He willed to lack; He willed to bear;
He willed by suffering to be schooled;
He willed the chains of flesh to wear;
Yet from her arms the worlds He ruled.
He willed by suffering to be schooled;
He willed the chains of flesh to wear;
Yet from her arms the worlds He ruled.
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As tapers 'mid the noontide glow
With merged yet separate radiance burn,
With human taste and touch even so
The things He knew He willed to learn.
With merged yet separate radiance burn,
With human taste and touch even so
The things He knew He willed to learn.
He sat beside the lowly door:
His homeless eyes appeared to trace
In evening skies remembered lore
And shadows of His Father's face.
His homeless eyes appeared to trace
In evening skies remembered lore
And shadows of His Father's face.
One only knew Him. She alone
Who nightly to His cradle crept
And, lying like the moonbeam prone,
Worshipped her Maker as He slept.
Who nightly to His cradle crept
And, lying like the moonbeam prone,
Worshipped her Maker as He slept.
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