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PAGE PSjOMINE, Refugium i mUl Morning Hymn • 7 Evening Hymn IO Easter Communion • 13 Christmas Communion 16 Eucharistic Comfort . v i8 At the Holy Eucharist . 20 "We have an Altar" . 22 After Communion 24 " Ye are come unto Mount Sion" 26 The Sympathies of Christ 30 " Ubi Charitas et Amor" 34 Hymn for the Close of a Service . 36 Hymn before a Journey 38 vi CONTENTS. PAGE Hymn for Passion-tide 41 Hymn for Michaelmas 44 Hymn for a Martyr's Day 49 An Intercession 55 Acts of Prayer 58 Temptation 60 Penitence 63 Prayer after Pardon 65 Tribulation and Wealth 67 Patience 71 Thankfulness 75 A Perfect Heart 79 Zeal ' . . . .82 Hiding from God 85 The Corner Stone, a Stumbling Stone . . 89 St. Martin's Vision 93 Secular Opinion 97 The Greatness of Common Life . . . .100 Hell .103 Antichrist 106 The Atonement 110 The Priesthood 114 The Evening Absolution 117 Ritual . . 120 St. Tudno's . T24 CONTENTS. vii PAGE The " Angelus " at Lucerne 128 St. Gervais, Rouen 133 The Scillitan Martyrs 139 The Vision of Saturus 145 St. Fructuosus . . . . . . 149 Theodore of Antioch 156 The Battle of Varna 162 A Tradition of Culloden 167 Louis the Seventeenth 170 The Odyssey, I. 1—95 177 SSfciSr JSomme, KefuBtum. HOU hast been, Thou art our Refuge, When this day of surging thought Brings all sanctities to question, And all hollow faiths to nought ; O what doubts, what drear negations, Straightway 'neath our feet are trod, When we answer with our Credo In a true and living God ! DOM/NE, REFUGIUM. Not a name for boundless Nature, Not a blind mechanic Cause, Not a sum of vital forces, Not a slave of iron laws ; Not an abdicated Ruler, Who could once a world create, Then leave all His will had fashioned To a self-evolving fate : But a God that acts and governs, Now, as on Creation's day ; Love's most special care combining With His widest general sway ; One whose grand continuous fiat Every moment props the spheres, One who bends His whole omniscience On each new-made orphan's tears. DOMINE, REFUGIUM % Yes — a real Guide and Father, Yes — a real Judge and Lord ; Whose perpetual moral presence Round our deepest life is poured ; One who verily can love us, Hear our cry, and make us blest; Who ordains His deepest witness In the voice within our breast But full surely He would give us Clearer tokens of His will, And our need to touch Him closer He would, Father-like, fulfil : So to powers and laws transcendent Nature's outward course might yield, And our own God shine before us, In His wealth of grace revealed. B 2 DOMINE y REFUGIUM. Therefore men that read the story Of the Manger and the Rood, Well may greet the only Gospel Straight from Him, the only Good : Heart and mind go forth to meet it, This is light, or light is none, To believe in God the # Father And in Jesus Christ His Son. This is light ;— where dimness lingers, Faith can wait till shadows flee ; And Life's riddles less perplex us When the Truth has made us free ; Yea, the Truth and Light Incarnate — For if Christ we truly scan, Him we trust in we must worship, Word made Flesh, and God made Man. BOMINE, REFUGIUM. Nought but this, the living fulness Of His own Emmanuel Name, Links His human truth and pureness With the splendours of His claim ; He that took His sovereign station Where no Angel durst come nigh, Would be neither Saint nor Prophet Were He less than God most high. But we know Thee, O good Jesus ! And Thy words are life indeed ; And Thine own all-glorious Person Gives coherence to our Creed ; Strong in that majestic oneness, Each high doctrine holds its place : Each a ground of holy action And a pledge of constant grace. DOMINE y REFUGIUM. Take then, Lord, our prostrate worship, Take our best of thanks and praise, For the dear, dear love that keeps us From the doubter's woeful ways ; Though the strife of tongues be with us, On our thoughts imprint Thy sign ; Till all questions find their answer In that life where all is Thine. JUonttag &smm |0 thank Thee, Lord, for this new morn We come before Thy face ; Make Thou the hours till eventide A perfect day of grace. We know, to bless our common life, Thou hast a precept given, That we, redeemed, should walk on earth As citizens of heaven. MORNING HYMN But, Father ! well Thou know'st that oft We find the world too strong ; That powers at deadly war with Faith Around our pathway throng. When things of sense their claim assert With such a royal mien, Tis hard to keep all homage back For majesties unseen. Men feel no awe for verities Whose voice is soft and still ; They thrust aside the realm of Grace — It lets them have their will. Self-hardened towards diviner things, Each day they own them less ; While through their being steals the plague Of utter worldliness. MORNING HYMN, O keep us, Lord, from such a doom ! O grant us power and love What lies before us here to do, But fix our hearts above. Amid the transient, make us true To that which knows no end ; Let holy thoughts and acts of faith With earthly business blend : So shall the beauty of our God * Beam o'er us all the day ; And this poor handiwork be rich In fruits that ne'er decay. * Ps. jcc. 17. ©betting &£tniu GOD, in this calm eventide Let two great thoughts with us abide ; How dust shall unto dust return, And how Thy love doth o'er us yearn. The days of man are but as grass ; They spring, they flourish, and they pass ; But to the faithful and the pure Thy mercy stands for ever sure. E VENING HYMN. 1 1 O joy for them ! they well may brook With fearless eyes on death to look ; Their spirit makes its firm abode In that paternal heart of God. Enthroned in all-sufficing rest, He still desires to see us blest ; As mother comforts darling son*, So bends He o'er us, one by one. Full oft this day His pardon sweet Has sped from far, some child to meet ; Has welcomed home the lost and found, And made His Heaven with joy resound. Thy power, O Lord, reveals Thee less Than glimpses of Thy tenderness ; * Isa. Levi. 13. EVENING HYMN And we, though here we know in part, May write " He loves me n on our heart. So pass we on from day to day, With strength to work and will to pray, And two things certain — We must die, And^— Thou wouldst have us live on high. ©aster ©ommumon' HOU that on the first of Easters Cam'st resplendent from the tomb, Leaving all Thy linen cerements Folded in the cavern's gloom, Come with Thine "All hail " to greet us, Come our Paschal joy to be ; Let our Altar, clad in brightness, Yield a throne of white for Thee. * Reprinted in substance from the " Lyra Eucharistica," edited by the Rev. O. Shipley. 14 EASTER COMMUNION. This shall crown the Queen of Sundays ; Grant but this, our cup runs o'er ; Peal on peal of Alleluias Makes us long for this the more. Faces bright with Easter gladness Yet their joy's perfection crave In the glorious Paschal banquet Of the King that spoiled the grave. Thou whose all-transcendent Manhood Knew not aught of bonds imposed, Rising ere the stone was lifted, Passing where the doors were closed ; Thou whose name is still the Wondrous, Is there aught too hard for Thee ? Let Thy dread and blissful Presence From our evils make us free. EASTER COMMUNION, 15 Agnus Dei ! we are guilty ; Panis Vitae ! we are faint ; But Thou didst not rise at Easter To be deaf to our complaint. Come, O come to cleanse and feed us, Breathing peace and kindling love, Till Thy Paschal blessings bear us To the Feast of feasts above. . "jggHIUFFERING is learning;" so of old 'twas And well the pensive minds of Hellas knew That insolence was oft to grandeur knit, And out of power a soul's corruption grew. Therefore they marvelled at Timoleon's life, Bright with success, but self-renouncing still t ; * Herod, i. 107. f Grote, Hilt. Gr. vii. 601. F 2 68 TRIBULATION AND WEALTH. Or hers, of kings the daughter, sister, wife, Whose heart was ne'er elate with blind self-will *. The phrase might seem an echo of the Book That tells how men, 'mid life's delicious flow, Their strength or wisdom for their fortress took, And were in pride uplifted, — for their woe. And be the warning precious, whensoe'er Soft ease would fan us with her fragrant wings/ And we, too prosperous, in the sunshine fair Forget God's presence, and the Four Last Things. But dare we deem that only in success Our life's probation or our danger lies ,• That pain,' by law of nature, needs must bless, And sorrow fix our treasure in the skies 1 ' * Thuc. vi. 59. TRIBULA TION AND WEALTH. 69 Too well we know what fierce Unchanging spite With versatile resource pursues its prey ; Whose arrows find us when our path is bright, And pierce us in the dark and cloudy day. Why else do sinners, for each stroke or loss More prone to trespass, fill the sacred theme, Wretches who hang rebellious on a cross, Who gnaw their tongues for anguish, and blas- pheme * ? For pain can harden, grief can isolate, And chill, too oft, the love that sprang from joy ; A sudden shock the faith of years abate, . And death's last agonies the soul destroy. And where, O Christ, is safety? Where indeed, But in the grace which taught Thy glorious Paul * Rev. xvi. io, II. 7© TRIBULATION AND WEALTH. How to abound, and how to suffer need, To face all changes, and be Thine through all ? To Thee who canst not change, our saving Health, Shall this deep prayer by steadfast faith be poured, — : In time of tribulation and of wealth, Be near, to save us from ourselves, O Lord. patience. N patience make your souls your own*;" When darksome days were near, This rule He gave, to guard His flock From restlessness and fear. Yet, Lord, from other lips than Thine The words might seem to speak Of Heathen calmness, self-upheld And scorning to be weak ; * St. Luke xxi. 19, KT^aaaQf. 7« PATIENCE. The philosophic height of soul, That counteth nothing great *, And in the face of shock or storm Relies on power innate. But all the goodliness of pride Thou bidd'st Thine own abjure, And find in nothingness confessed The strength that standeth sure. Yes ; we are nothing — Thou art all ! That creed, implanted deep, Shall nerve us, in the evil day A good heart still to keep. If tidings of a wide distress Ring like a funeral sound, With anguish thickening o'er the earth And terrors all around ; * Arist. J2th. iv. 3. PATIENCE: 73. What joy, to set the Name of Christ Between our souls and harm, , And cast the weight of all our care On Thy sufficing arm ! What peace, to welcome all Thy will, Bid faithless fears depart, And sanctify the Lord our God Within the trustful heart ! So, as of old Thy Spirit's force A shrinking prophet steeled • , To grace in its transforming might Shall nature's weakness yield. For this is man's true dignity, To lean on God above ; The kingly power of self-control Comes with the gift of love f. * Jer. Li 8. f a Tim. i. 7. 74 PATIENCE. This is the patience born of faith, That sets the whole man free, And makes our souls our own in truth, By offering them to Thee. €f)anftfulne*0. [IS not for nothing, Lord, we read How, in the Church's golden prime, The readiest for Thy cause to bleed, The men in thought and act sublime, Whose names beam out like stars in heaven, Whose memory all Thy liegemen bless, Were those to whom Thy love had given The boon of life-long thankfulness. ?6 • THANKFULNESS. Full well they knew, 'twas meet and right To mingle constant praise with prayer, To render thanks with all their might, For all things, always, every where \ So Cyprian with thanksgiving glowed, Soon as he heard the doom of death ; And " Praise to God for all things " flowed From Chrysostom's departing breath. But far and wide the grace was cast, The seed of love was broadly sown ; By w Deo gratias," as they passed, The faithful fblk were surest known ; That watchword for the daily strife Might well their tongues and thoughts employ, Who made the Church transform their life, And the great Offering crown their joy. THANKFULNESS. 77 Let their example teach us, Lord, One secret of the life divine ; How in the thankful breast are stored Forces that make the whole man Thine. Who bids his heart go forth in love To Thee that far exceed'st it still, Sets all within him free to move In concert with Thine own dear will. Ah ! well may lives be poor and base, When hearts to Thee are hard and cold ; grant, in love, that quickening grace, Which yet Thy justice might withhold Thou that didst turn the flinty rock \ At once into a springing well, Our closeid affection canst unlock, And make our lips Thy mercies tell. ' 78 THANKFULNESS. So grant us, first, a worthier sense Of gifts that form our special share, Each gracious call and influence, Each friend raised up, each answered prayer ; Then make us wing a broader flight, Help us to bless Thee while we scan The length, and breadth, and depth, and height Of Thy redeeming work for man. But while we long, as long we must, More gladness in Thy praise to know, Preserve us, lest we put pur trust In keen emotion's fitful glow; Let every hymn that thrills the breast A duteous habit serve to feed ; So thankful words shall please Thee best, When bearing fruit in life and deed. ft perfect Jfyatt all the precious gifts, O Lord, Thy mercy can impart, Whate'er Thou wiliest to withhold, O grant a perfect heart *. Behold us, how we feebly float Through many a changing mood ; How oft one flash of thought annuls Our firmest choice of good. * I Chron. xzviil. 9, Sec. 80 A PERFECT HEART. We sin, repent, and fondly think Our hill is now made strong ; Our state of grace, restored, abides — Thou knowest, Lord, how long ! Alas, for prayer-made purposes That live not half the day — For goodness like the morning cloud, Like dews that pass away! Alas, this paltry doubleness Puts all our life to shame, And brands on us, baptized for Truth, The self-deceiver's name. Thou knowest all ; but, gracious Lord, We know Thou didst intend That we should hold the one true course To Thee, our one true End. A PERFECT HEART. 81 O take our incoherent wills, And set them straight with Thine ! Our broken threads of moral life In one strong whole combine ; Make us each day more fixed in love, To Thee more simply given, Till Perseverance lands us safe In Thine unchanging Heaven. Zeal. HEREFORE ask if Heaven's true pilgrims Found less hindrance on their way In the old rough-handed ages Than in our fair modern day ? God keeps watch o'er all probations, Helping those that strive and pray. Ah ! but now His pitying Angels See full many a fall begin ZEAL. 83 When this age's worldly softness Penetrates the soul within, Till it looks with half-allowance On the ghastly face of sin. For all facts must have their welcome, All opinions claim their right ; And the calm impartial blandness So befools our moral sight, That we scarcely dare to whisper, " This is darkness, that is light" " Ye that love the Lord, hate evil ! " O let this forgotten lore Send the fire of just discernment Burning through our souls once more ; Make us humbly, bravely zealous For the God our lips adore. g 2 84 ZEAL. . Save us, Lord, from base contentment When Thine honour lacks its due ; In our chilled and languid spirits Wake the manful faith anew, That the vile is not the precious, And the false is not the true. &ftmg from ffiotu JITHER from Eden-gates— a long, long roadt Yet whoso looks around, too clearly sees Marks of the twain that hid themselves from God Behind the garden trees. The age denies Him not, but blindly strives To thrust His active presence far away, Back from the scene of daily thoughts and lives To some dim elder day. 86 HIDING FROM GOD. Little it costs to call Him primal Cause ; More to confess that, since He reigneth still, The sequences men deem eternal laws Obey His sovereign will ; Yet more, to own His full imperial right O'er all the souls and intellects He gave ; And from that claim perpetual, infinite, No freedom e'er to crave. So men, by some dark impulse, break the cord That bound their sires to worship and to faith ; They will not know the terrors of the Lord, Nor bow to all He saith Of sin and judgment ; no ! they cannot brook What seems a mystic saying, or a stern ; And from His Church interpreting His Book They will not stoop to learn. HIDING FROM GOD. 87 And so for solid faith they substitute A mass of fluid thoughts, but half believed ; And plant the flowers of love, without the root Of saCted facts received, Of doctrines strong to heal, amend, uplift ; And finding thus no virtue in a Creed, They welcome not the all-surpassing gift Of God made Flesh indeed. And they whose worldly peace would feel a sting If the Most High were thought to come so near, May well ignore His Sacraments, that bring All Heaven around us here. So cries the world to Heaven, " Depart from us !" And shall we with the world our portion choose \ Not thus, all-gracious Lord, O never thus May we our bliss refuse ! 88 HIDING FROM GOD. No — let us open wide our spirit's door To all that speaks and witnesses of Thee ; And hasten to the Light, that more and more Our lives may lightened be. O loving Presence I beam through mind and heart Possess us wholly ; come, in fulness come ; Nor e'er hereafter say, " Let Us depart," But, " This shall be My home." €i)t ffiortut Stone, a StumNfaB Stone. NE mystery of the inner life We tremble while we scan ; God sendeth days with good most rife, Most perilous to man. When sacred truth is fullest taught, And grace flows far and wide, They seem most rudely set at nought, Most thanklessly defied. po THE CORNER STONE, Can hardened hardness be the effect Of more outspoken love 1 Can He, the Corner Stone Elect, A stone of stumbling prove % Yea, so He willed, who fashioned thus The gift of choice we share ; For when He deigns to visit us, He lays our spirit bare. His presence, like a potent test, Appealing to our will, Intensifies within the breast Out force of good or ill. Its voice the wise have understood ; They cry, " Thy servants hear ;" While some shrink farther from their good, Because it comes so near. A STUMBLING STONE. 91 A dread rehearsal of the Doom Thus holds its gradual sway, And men far distant from the tomb Are judged from day to day ; As each makes answer to the voice, In severed ranks they stand ; On each, for every godless choice, Is marked a deeper brand. O set for rising and for fall, This tells us why of yore Thou wouldst not manifest to all What loving hearts adore : So now, whene'er, with wondering grief, Thy truth divine we see Awakening fiercer unbelief Where joyous faith should be ; 93 THE CORNER STONE, frc. Let no impatience of Thy wrong Keep back our pitying prayers, That those for whom Thou tarriest long May find our Jesus— theirs. SbU iBattm'* Vfeion. [N aged saint was kneeling, rapt in prayer 'Twas he that more abundantly than all Had toiled, to chase the idols from their lair In forest glades of Gaul. Ere yet the Font he knew, a soldier lad, At Amiens gate, when winter's face was grim, With half his cloak a shivering wretch he clad, So clothing Christ in him. 94 ST. MAKTIN'S VISION. That loving deed, by Love thus owned and blest, Became the sunrise of the bright career That made, through all God's Churches in the West, The name of Martin dear. Wondrous in works ; 'mid furious Heathen brave ; His teaching with the Name of Jesus rife ; Deep pity in his heart, that yearned to save A doomed heresiarch's life. And he was kneeling, praying through the night, When 'mid a splendour as from heaven sent down A form stood o'er him, beautiful and bright, With gorgeous robes and crown. A sweet voice thrilled him, while his face he raised ; " Has Martin, then, to own his Lord forgot ? Adore me, O my servant ! " Martin gazed, Uprose, and worshipped not, ST. MARTIN'S VISION. 95 But sternly spake, " His token never fails ; Against deceivers this be my defence : Show me in hands and feet the print of nails : — Thou canst not — Get thee hence !" O Christ, the same through ages and to-day, In whose dear form those awful marks endure, Do not like trials oft our faith assay With many a dazzling lure? Learning and fancy, thought in ample reach * And wealth of glowing words, our homage claim : They haunt our ears with gentle, solemn speech, And greet us in Thy Name. Grant us to try them, Lord, by Martin's test ; And if on this exuberance of mind * See a well-known passage at the end of "The Church of the Fathers." 9 6 ST. MARTIN'S VISION. We see Thy saving Passion's mark imprest, To welcome all we find : If not — the lying spirit to discern, Nor follow, to our endless shame and loss, The teachers- who would make our hearts unlearn The doctrine of Thy Cross. Secular ©pmtom E say, " The chiefs of worldly thought Our motives and our acts misread, And scan through some deforming mist The beauteous Cause for which we plead. " Our loyal zeal for Faith they call The instinct of a priestly caste, A love of dull dogmatic form, A helpless yearning o'er the past. H 98 SECULAR OPINION. " They wave us off, they talk us down, With subtle sneer and clamour loud ; At every turn our soul is filled With all the scorn of all the proud." Be patient, friends ; look up to Heaven, And in the appointed future trust ; Nor fret if censors do you wrong, Who cannot, if they would, be just. A veil before their sight is spread ; The whole grand case they cannot see ; No marvel if in Babel's ears Your Creed an idle tale should be. | They know not that the Faith is true, That all high Powers are on your side ; God's Kingdom and its wondrous work Are by their shallowness denied. SECULAR OPINION, 99 Tis lack of sense for greatest things That fosters this complacent scorn, And makes the World in every age Against the Church lift up her hom. Dear friends, accept this little cross, And let man's judgment have its way ; And when contemned or slandered most, Be patient — think of Christ — and pray : " Lord, give us brave and cheerful faith, To do Thy work and wait Thine hour, And know, whate'er Opinion's force, Thine is the kingdom and the power." h a t. Oerbata, l&ouen. j|ES — 'tis a place that will not be forgot ; Our memories keep it sacred We had stood, That morn, in Normandy's primatial church, Old Rouen's grand and solemn Notre Dame, Where Rollo wild and pious Longsword sleep, And our own Founder fills a nameless grave *. Shrunk was its ancient pomp ; within the choir A scanty band of Canons knelt, and one At the High Altar said the Chapter Mass, With two church-boys in trailing cassocks red To serve him and respond. And thence we came * William of Durham died at Rouen, in 1249* 134 ST. GERVAIS, ROUEN. To fair St. Maclou's, where through gorgeous glass The soft light fell on bowed communicants, And still a tablet spoke of Mission held, And vows Baptismal heartily renewed, When Louis Seize had not been ten years king, Nor yet the great uprooting storm had burst On France's throne and altar. Onward thence, To that high-towering pile of loveliness, A shrine of beauty rather than of awe, St Ouen, in its wealth of lightsome grace Greeting the autumn sunshine. Calm it stood, As if no fierce fanatic Huguenots, Mistaking sacrilege for godly zeal, Nor, later, those that warred against all faith, Had e'er profaned it Then a gentle slope Ascending, soon we reached the simple fane, Sole relic of St Gervais' Priory, Where once to Norman William's dying ear, ST. GERVAIS, ROUEN. 135 Pealing across the city, swept the toll Of deep Cathedral bells, announcing Prime ; And then, with lifted hands, and blinded prayer To Mary, as if nearer than her Son, The hard stern kingly spirit left its corse To lie three hours neglected on the ground, Till, for the love of God and Normandy *, At his own cost a simple knight began The obsequies, through Ascelin's righteous claim So hardly brought to close. Had e'er the Psalm That warns us, man's estate is vanity, A fuller comment than the Conqueror's end 1 Such scenes before him pass, who musing stands Beside St. Gervais' walls. But O the change, Soon as he gains the little crypt below ! Its age by Roman brick-work manifest, It still survives, a Basilic complete, * Ord. Vital, vii. 16. 136 ST. GERVAIS, ROUEN. With nave and choir, and apse for holiest place, And the twin sockets for the chancel-veil, And the stone altar with its crosses five, And traces of a seat pontifical, And arched recesses where for ages lay The first of Rouen's prelates, and the next, Till fear of Northmen bore the sacred bones To safer sheltering. Be the memory blest Of Mello and Avician ! O'er their graves, Haply, Victricius — he who, one has deemed*, First sang the great " Quicunque," — he who bore The staff at Rouen, while o'er Hippo rose The light of all the west, — this temple reared. O precious monument of that good time, When Martin still was at his Master's work, And seed well sown by blessed Hilary Was gladdening Angels by its glorious fruit ! • Harvey on the Three Creeds, ii. 577* ST. GERVAIS, ROUEN. 137 O famous Church of France ! in this thy day Of loyal strife with Satan's ministers, Whose courtesies, more odious than their scorn *, Blaspheme thy Lord and God, both thine and ours, What best will serve thee ? Not the Marian zeal That finds at Bon Secours its own high place ; That fond perversion of His Mother's name, Wronging His work, His love, His majesty, Weakening the weakness of His little ones, And further yet estranging minds estranged ;— But that pure, manful, thoughtful faith and love, That grand intensity of Christian force, That knowledge of their country's deepest need, Whereby thine ancient heroes, preaching Christ In His Incarnate fulness, fought and won* He that revives His work in midst of years Can give whate'er He wills to us and thee. * See Dr. Pusey on Daniel, p. 30. 138 ST. GERVAIS, ROUEN. O more and more to Saints of either land May He fulfil His promise ; " I will pour My Spirit on thy seed I" And who, meanwhile, Holding the faith of Christ, could set his feet In that historic city, where the past So mingles with the present, nor take home The true, true lesson, which we that day read In her Archbishop's annual pastoral, Fixed on a pillar of St Vincent's church ? u Lo, all things change, and all things pass away, And all things die, but faith, and hope, and love ; These die not, brethren ! O how all around, All divers turns of life, conspire to show That prodigality of tenderness Wherewith our God entreats us — Come to Me ! " €f>e SctUttan fKattgr*. PAS in July*, in Claudius* consulate, At Carthage, when the Court was duly met, Speratus and his fellows, brethren twain And sisters three, were cited to attend. Then Saturninus the Proconsul spake ; " Ye may win pardon from Severus, and From Antoninus, Emperors both, and Lords, By turning to our gods with right good will." Speratus said, " We never wrought a crime, Nor followed after aught of wickedness, Nor spake to any man an evil word. * About a. d. 200. The lines are a translation from Ruinart's M Acta Sincere." i 4 o THE SCILUTAN MARTYRS. Tis you that did us wrong, while we have still Been rendering thanks ; for He whom we adore Is the true King and Lord." "High-bred are we," Quoth Saturninus, " courteous and refined ; And by the genius of our lord we swear, And for his weal make vows — and why not ye % n Speratus said, " Lend me a quiet ear, — Our mystery of meekness thou shalt learn." " Tell out thy mystery ; I will harm thee not ; Swear only by the genius of our lord." " The genius of the Emperor of this world I know not ; but I serve my God in heaven, Whom no man e'er hath seen, nor e'er can see. My hands are clean of theft ; whate'er I buy, I pay the Emperor tribute, for I know He is my lord ; but worship give I none Save to my Lord, the King of kings, and Lord Of all the nations." The Proconsul said, " Peace to the tumult of your restless tongues ! THE SCILLITAN MARTYRS. 141 Draw near, and to the gods do sacrifice." "Nay," said Speratus; "evil restlessness Is that which leads to taking of men's lives, And slanderous charges," Turning to the rest, Spake the Proconsul ; " Do not ye take part In this man's frantic folly ; rather fear Our sovereign, and his ordinance obey." Answered Cittinus; u We have none to fear Save Him that is in heaven, the Lord our God." Then the Proconsul ; " Thrust them down again Into the dungeon ; set them in the stocks Until the morrow," When the morrow came, On his tribunal the Proconsul sat, And had them brought before him. There they stood ; Then spake he to the women ; " Pay regard Unto our sovereign, and do sacrifice." i 4 2. THE SCILUTAN MARTYRS. Donata said, "We render honour due To Caesar, as to Caesar ; to our God Honour and prayer." Vestina, standing, spake ; "lama Christian too." Secunda next ; " And I too, I believe in mine own God, Desiring to be found in Him ; thy gods We will not serve nor worship." Hearing this, He bade them to be kept apart awhile, Then called the men, and to Speratus said ; " Dost thou persist in being Christian still % " " Yea," said Speratus \ " yea, I do persist ; And hear ye all, — a Christian man am I " Then all that with him had been put in ward Heard his confession, and gave full assent, Saying, "We too are Christians, e'en as he." Then the Proconsul ; " Have ye then no mind To take fresh counsel, or to gain reprieve?" Answered Speratus ; u In a righteous strife THE SCILUTAN MARTYRS. 143 Reprieve is none. Do even as thou wilt ; Since we for Christ will die rejoicingly." Spake the Proconsul; "Say what books are those That ye with reverence read?" "The Gospels four," He answered, " of our Master Jesus Christ, And the Epistles of the Apostle Paul, And every Scripture book inspired of God." Then the Proconsul spake ; " I grant you now Space of three days, for coming to your mind." Speratus answered ; "Christians are we all, I and these with me ; and we will not swerve From the true faith of Jesus Christ our Lord. Do what thou wilt" He saw their stedfast mind, Their faith unshaken ; and he bade his scribe Write down the doom: "All these" (he named them all) "As Christians self-declared, and to our lord 144 THE SCILLITAN MARTYRS. Refusing to give honour and respect, I sentence to beheading." Soon as this Was from the tablet read, Speratus spake, And his companions with him ; " Thanks to God, Who deigns this day in Heaven to welcome us, As Martyrs, for confession of His Name." This said, they led them forth. With one accord They bent their knees, and when a second time They had given thanks to Christ, the head of each Was stricken off. Twas in the month July, The seventeenth day, that they were consummate As Christ's true Martyrs ; and they plead for us To Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom be given, With God the Father and the Holy Ghost, Honour and glory evermore. Amen. €f>e Vision of S>aturua*. |HIS was my vision. We had suffered all, Had passed from out the flesh, and had begun A journey eastward, borne by Angels four, Albeit with their hands they touched us not. They bore us, yet we moved not as supine, But as men do that climb a gentle slope. * About 202. Translated from Ruinart. I4 146 THE VISION OF SATURUS. And when v set free from earth, we first beheld A light immense ; and to Perpetua then, For she was by my side, *' Behold," I said, " What the Lord promised ; now 'tis ours indeed." And while the Angels bore us on, we reached A mighty space, as 'twere of garden ground, Where rose-trees grew, and every kind of flower. The trees were like the cypress for their height, And ceaseless fell their leaves. And there we found Four other Angels, brighter than the rest, Who, seeing, did us honour, and exclaimed, Admiring, to their fellows, " Lo ! they come, They come !" Whereon the four that carried us Were struck with awe, and set us on our feet ; And so we fared along, a stadium's length, On a broad way, and met Astaxius, Jocundus, Saturninus, Martyrs all In this same persecution, burnt alive, THE VISION OF SATURUS. 147 With Quintus, who himself a Martyr died While yet in prison ; and we asked of them Where dwelt the rest. But then the Angels spake ; " Come first and enter in, and greet the Lord." Then came we near a place whereof the walls Seemed built of light ; and at the gateway stood Four Angels, who on all that entered in Put garments white. So clad, we entered in, And saw a light immense, and heard a sound Of many voices, that unceasingly Cried " Agios ! Agios ! Agios !" In the midst We saw One. seated, like a white-haired man, With snowy hair and youthful countenance, Whose feet we saw not. On His left and right Were four-and-twenty elders ; at their back Stood many others. And we entered in Greatly amazed, and stood before the Throne : And the four Angels held us up, and then l 2 148 THE VISION OF SATURUS. We kissed Him, and He passed His hand across Our faces. Then the other elders spake ; " Let us stand up." We stood ; the Peace went round. Again they said to us, " Go forth, and play." Then I ; " Perpetua, now thou hast thy wish." "Yea, thanks to God," she answered; "in the flesh Right glad I was, but now still gladder here." So passed we forth And standing at the gate, We came to know by face a multitude Of brethren and of Martyrs ; and we all Drank in a fragrance rich beyond all words, That satisfied all cravings, e'en like food. Then I awoke rejoicing. j|N the Lord's day the soldiers came to seek The Bishop Fructuosus *. Now he sat In his bed-chamber. When the lictor's wand Smote on the door, he tarried not, but rose With slippered feet, went forth, and faced the men. "Come," said they, "thou art summoned to appear, Thou and thy Deacons." " Let us go," he said ; * Bishop of Tarragona: martyred Jan. 21, 259. Translated from Ruinart. 150 ST. FRUCTUOSUS. " But let me put the shoes upon my feet." " E'en as thou wilt," they answered. So he passed Within the prison, joyful and assured Of the Lord's crown to which he had been called, And prayed, and did not cease. And with him there Were brethren that to him did minister, Praying that he would bear them in his mind. And one day, in the prison, he baptized Rogatian, now our brother. Six days passed ; And on the Friday, with his Deacons, he Was brought to trial Then ^Emilian spake, The Prseses ; " Bring ye Fructuosus here, Augurius, and Eulogius." " They attend." Then he; "The Emperor's mandate ye haye heard." ST. FRUCTUOSUS. 151 Answered the Bishop ; " Naught of that I know ; I am a Christian." " They have given command To adore the gods." " The One God I adore, Who made the heaven and earth, the sea, and all That therein is." " Thou knowest there be gods ?" " I know not." " Soon thou shalt know." To our Lord The Bishop looked, and inly 'gan to pray. iEmilian spake ; " Who then are heard, who feared, Who worshipped, if the gods be not adored, Nor homage to the Emperor's likeness done ?" Then to Augurius ; " Do not thou give heed To Fructuosus." " I adore," said he, " The God Almighty." To Eulogius next ; " Dost thou, too, worship Fructuosus ?" " No, But Him whom Fructuosus* self adores." To Fructuosus then ^Emilian said, 152 ST. FRUCTUOSUS. " "Art thou a Bishop?" "Yea, I am." "Thou wast" And straight he doomed them to be burned alive. Then Fructuosus, with his Deacons twain, Into the amphitheatre was led, The people mourning for him : such deep love Not from the brethren only had he won, But e'en from Heathen ; such a man he was, As by the Gentiles , teacher, blessed Paul, The Holy Ghost had shown he ought to be. And for this very cause the brethren all, Who knew to what high glory he was bound, Felt less of grief than joy. Many there were That in fraternal kindness offered them A cup of mingled drink ; but he replied, " Not yet has come the hour to break the fast" For it was then the fourth hour of the day ; And on the Wednesday, in their prison-house, . ST. FRUCTUOSUS. 153 They in due order had the Station kept. So on the Friday, calm of heart and glad, He hasted, that in Christ's own Paradise (Which He for those that love Him hath prepared), With Martyrs and with Prophets he might feast And break his Station. When they reached the place, His Reader, Augustalis, straightway came, And, weeping, begged that he might loose his shoes. Answered the blessed Martyr, " Nay, my son ; Let be ; myself will loose them; strong am I, Joyful and well assured of what the Lord Hath promised." When his shoes were off, there came Our fellow-soldier, of the brethren one, Felix by name, and clasping his right hand, Craved of the Bishop to remember him. Then with a loud voice, so that all might hear, The holy Bishop answered ; " I must needs x$4 ST. FRUCTUOSUS. Be mindful of the whole Church Catholic, From East to West outspread." And standing there, Just on the verge of entering to receive The wreath unfading, rather than the doom, Watched by the soldiers, by the brethren heard, The Holy Spirit prompting him at once And speaking in him, Fructuosus said ; " Ye will not lack a Pastor ; and the love And promise of our Lord will never fail, Here or hereafter. For what now ye see Seems but a sickness lasting for an hour." So gave he comfort to the brethren round, And with his comrades to salvation passed ; Most worthy, and in very martyrdom Happy to find the promise true, and feel The Holy Scriptures' profit. They were like To Azarias and his fellows twain, ST. FRUCTUOSUS. 155 For in them, too, the Presence was discerned Of the All-holy Trinity ; for when , They stood within the fire, the Father gave His help, the Son was near to comfort them, The Holy Spirit walked amid the flame. And when the bands that held their hands were burnt, Mindful of prayer, and of their use and wont, They bent their knees, rejoicing, well assured Of Resurrection ; and with outstretched arms, In token of the trophy of the Lord, They poured out prayers to Him, and ceased not, Until their three souls all went forth as one. Cfieotiore of anttocfc*. EFORE Apollo's altar In Daphne's sacred wood, With visage pale and anxious The crowned Apostate stood ; By slaughtered bulls, and incense, And many a choral strain, He craved response from Phoebus,- For hours he sought in vain. * See Soc. iii. 1 8, 19. Soz. v. 19, 20. THEODORE OF ANTIOCH. 157 Like Baal's priests on Carmel, For fire-sign struggling hard, So found he none to answer, Nor any to regard ; Till trembling, as with anguish, At length the pontiff said, " If thou wouldst end his silence, First take thou hence the Dead. " For know, thy brother Gallus Erewhile the coffin laid Of Babylas the Bishop Within this holy glade :" " No marvel," Julian answered, That no response might come ; Go, warn the Galilaeans To bear the carcase home." 158 THEODORE OF ANTIOCH. We heard, we rushed from Antioch, Our buried Saint we found ; High on a car we raised him, With chanters gathering round ; And forth the Psalm went thundering, " Confounded be all they That worship carved images, To gods of stone that pray V 9 * The Tyrant heard, and quivered With mingled wrath and fear ; t " Haste, bid the Prefect Sallust Before our throne appear." He came, and heard the mandate ; "Avenge me on that crew ! Let those that scorn the Immortals Their pride in torments rue." THEODORE OF ANTIOCH. 159 A Heathen man was Sallust, Enslaved to Caesar's will ; Yet loth in Christian Antioch Such bidding to fulfil. Since vain were prayer and counsel To move that soul accurst, He stretched his hand for victims, ♦ And seized on me, the first. To that fell Horse of torture Affixed at prime of morn, I hung till hour of vespers, All mangled, wrenched, and torn ; Yet still had strength for chanting, " Confounded be all they That worship carved images, To gocjs of stone that pray !" 160 THEODORE OF ANTIOCH. Ah ! marvel not, Rufinus ; I am but flesh and blood ; My pangs at first were grievous, But soon beside me stood A young man, tall and beauteous, — O friend, believe me now ! — Who wiped with cool soft linen The sweat from off" my brow. * In that sweet Angel-presence The pain could scarce abide ; He sprinkled water o'er me, He stirred not from my side, Till Sallust bade them loose me Just ere the close of day ; And I could scarce be thankful, For then he passed away. THEODORE OF ANTIOCH, 161 Unmeet for healing wonders, A sinful man was I ; But God may well show tokens When kings His Christ defy. Be Christ Himself my witness, That thus He sent me aid, Who of the doomed Apostate That dire example made. M Cfie battle of Uatna** |ING Ladislas sat with his peers at the board, When the peace was made fast with the Moslemah's Lord; All welcomed the pledge, " To the first sight of home!" All, save Father Julian, the Legate of Rome. With his stern glooming brows 'midst the banquet he rose — " On your compact with Death be confusion and woes! * a.d. 1444. See Gibbon, viii. 130. These lines are re- printed from the " Englishman's Magazine." THE BATTLE OF VARNA. j6 3 Who keeps the foul peace, on the Cross he hath trod; Break faith with Mahound, or be faithless to God. " Your swords might have guarded the Constantines' seat, But ye cast loose the quarry that swooned at your feet; Ho, ye that spare Agag, fof Baal that plead, Trow ye God hath no vengeance, and traitors no meed? " There were days when the Hermit of Amiens outspoke, And chanting, * God wills it!' all Christendom woke ; O who shall rekindle the light that has fled 1 There were days — they are gone ! there were men — they are dead ! M 2 164 THR BATTLE OF VARNA. " But ye swore on the Gospels ? Our Lady forefend Her Son's Name should make His worst foeman your friend : Tis the Pontiff, His Vicar, that cancels your vow, That speaks by my voice ; will ye hesitate now ? " His proud eye flashed round, but no murmur replied, Till sudden, "God wills it ! " King Ladislas cried; " Thou hast conquered, Lord Legate ! next morn, by the Rood, We'll .redden yon treaty in Amurath's blood. " Mount, Knights, for the Cross !" To the saddle they sprang; Through the tents at (Jeep midnight the trumpet- call rang ; See the arms, newly donned, in the morning-beam glow, As the tempest of Christendom bursts on the foe ! THE BATTLE OF VARNA. 165 Cries the Legate, as backward the Moslems recoil, " They flee, and our household divideth the spoil !" To the Soldan grey warriors are muttering, " 'Tis o'er!" But he speaks, calm and solemn — " I've one weapon more." From the folds of his mantle the Treaty he drew, With a king's written pledge that the peace should be true ; "As we keep faith and troth, brother Soldan, with thee, So help us our Helper, the Son of Marie." In the pure face of Heaven he raised it on high, To plead for revenge on the Nazarene's lie ; Then lifted his voice — to Mohammed for aid 'Twas to Issa Ben Mariam the Infidel prayed. 166 THE BATTLE OF VARNA. " Hear, God of the Christians, by Christians defied ! By Thy Name they have sworn — by Thy Name they have lied : If Thou art what they deem Thee, look forth from Thy throne, And do right to my wrongs in avenging Thine own." Lo the Turks, how they rally, when sorest bestead! How their " La-illah " peals, and their sabres glow red! Is Michael's own force in each Moslem to-day, That they turn their pursuers to flight and dismay % And the Legate rides fast — but he spurreth in vain Who rides from God's wrath ! — see him stretched on the plain, With a doom written deep in those features of woe, " Who are false for the Truth, have the Truth for their foe." a Cratttton of (BulUtoem HEY found him on Culloden heath, A sight for soldiers' tears ; His beauty all too strong for death, His life but twenty years ; They muttered low, " God send him grace ! " The gory plaid they drew For corpse-hood o'er the fair, proud face, And eyes of lustrous blue. They bore him past an ancient hall. Deep set in vernal trees ; The Lady looks o'er terrace wall, The heavy sight she sees ; 168 A TRADITION OF CULLODEN. Her only son, in Urquhart-glen, With kinsmen bides afar ; She will not call him home again, Till sinks the blast of war. Her joy is in that precious life Fenced round and kept secure From gathering clans and deadly strife, And dark Drummossie-muir ; " Far other weird was thine, poor youth ! " She bids the bearers wait ; Her bosom thrills with woman's ruth, Her hand unbars the gate. She looks upon the long bright hair, And fast her tears outflow ; " Some mother's heart, my darling fair, Beside thee lieth low ! A TRADITION OF CULLOBEN. 169 God's kindness cheer that stricken heart ! He hath been kind to me ; Else, haply, e'en as now thou art, So might my Ronald be." Her own soft hands the corpse will streek ; She draws the plaid away : — Comes ghastly whiteness o'er her cheek, Her lips are cold as clay ; Ah ! close her arms the dead enfold, Her lips to his are pressed ; The mother's heart lies still and cold Upon her Ronald's breast Eout* ti)e Sebenteentf), j|AS he a King of France ] He never sat Wrapt in blue robes, on throne high- canopied And bright with golden lilies ; ne'er for him In long procession from St Rami's Church, Through the old sacred city's crowded streets, To that sublime Cathedral porch was borne The oil that blessed the long-lived Monarchy, In the Ampoule of Clovis. Ne'er for him, As having " grasped the guidance of the realm," LOUIS THE SEVENTEENTH. 171 Through Notre Dame rang out the choral prayer. Versailles ne'er called him master ; no behest Of his, from Bed of Justice proudly given In the Grand Chamber of the Parliament, Fixed on the rolls his absolute decree. No private wrath, armed with his manual sign, Darkened the dark Bastille with new despair. Nor wars he made, nor peace ; no rival Court His policy discussed, his envoys heard. No courtier prelate to his lofty stall Bowed, ere he spoke the message of a King That ne'er accepteth persons ; by his bed, When hope was o'er, no Almoner appeared, From jewelled pyx to draw the Host, and breathe The " Ecce Agnus " in his dying ear, And say " Inclina " o'er the shrouded corpse, Ere yet St Denis' vault should claim its own *. * Sec Carlyle, Fr. Rev. i. 28. 31. 17* LOUIS THE SEVENTEENTH. He King of France ? that woeful captive boy, Torn from his mother's arms, and made the prey Of a coarse ruffian with a tyrant's heart, Fit for his fiendish task, to brutalize And slay by inches Louis Capet's son ; Or freed from those base hands, but left to lie In sickness, filth, and killing solitude, Pent in a den with foulest vapours rank, As if some pest were holding revel there ; Then, all too late, to gentler guards consigned, Who could but faintly cheer his last decay, Teach him that earth had still some kindness left, And win some fragments of slow mournful speech, " And yet I ne'er did harm to any one " — " Ah ! let me see her once before I die !" Yet many owned him King ; all Europe o'er, Princes or subjects, whoso loathed or feared The wild Republic, for his rescue prayed. LOUIS THE SEVENTEENTH. 173 His uncle, with an exile's parody Of princely state, assumed the formal style Of Regent of his kingdom. King he was To emigrants, in England finding bread ; To royalists suspected or proscribed, Gentle or simple, hidden, hunted, caught, Flung into dungeons, mocked with trial-forms At Tinville's bar, or bound to Sanson's plank, — Or living through the Terror, strangely safe ; To Toulon, when she welcomed England's flag ; To those high faithful hearts in La Vendee, That coupled in one joyous battle-cry His name with God's. Ah ! could he but have heard The shout that startled Dol, when from their knees Men rose absolved, and rushed upon the foe — " God save the King ! We march to Paradise !" Or known the simple wish that, victory won, And France through them to loyal peace restored, The Seventeenth Louis, of his regal grace, 174 LOUIS THE SEVENTEENTH, Would deign but once to visit La Vendue ! Ah ! many a King of France might well have given Whole years of pomp or conquest, but to gain Place in the prayers and hopes and dying thoughts Of men like " Anjou's Saint," Cath61ineau, Or Bonchamps, true to mercy e'en in death, Or such a sweet-souled hero as Lescure ! And History gives their helpless, crownless Liege His station in the grand old dynasty That sprang from Hugh of Paris. Past and gone Is all the splendour of the Fleur-de-lis ; But in the Louvre, where an Emperor's care Hoards many a relic of old majesties, A little plaything cannon bears the. name Of the young Seventeenth Louis. Let him keep That title, his by blood, and — better still — His by a nature which no barbarous wrongs LOUIS THE SEVENTEENTH. 175 Could e'er make quite unroyal. Simon once, (Who saw him kneel upon his wretched bed. And join his hands as if in act to pray, Then with demoniac fury fell on him For " saying Paternosters like a monk," — And whom, ere long, the axe of Thermidor Sent to the judgment of the orphan's God,) This Simon asked him, " Could the brigands' force Enthrone thee France's monarch, how wouldst thou Deal with me, Wolf-cub V "I would pardon you." There spoke the heart of a Most Christian King. O guiltless victim ! dreamed we of a God In whose decrees were nought unsearchable, Whose working must be measured, weighed, and squared Precisely with what men call good and just, How should we look on such a fate as thine ? 176 LOUIS THE SEVENTEENTH, But minds that frame such idol-god as this Know not the Saviour's Cross, the Christian's Heaven ; And thou, St. Louis' heir, whose feeble breath, Just flitting from the poor exhausted form, Spoke of sweet music and thy mother's voice, Hast been in Paradise these seventy years *. * He died June 8, 1795. %%% <©is**ep, i. 1—95* |ING, Muse, the change-tried man who wandered far, Since o'er Troy town he brought the storm of war ; Saw many a people's burgh, and learned their mind, And crossed the deep, to many a woe resigned, Striving his life to save, and home to bear His comrades ; yet not all his love and care Could save them ; by their own self-will undone, Fools ! they devoured the cattle of the Sun, Who therefore doomed them ne'er their home to see : * Reprinted from the "Englishman's Magazine." If 178 THE ODYSSEY, I. 1—95. Of this, beginning where it pleaseth thee, Zeus-born Goddess, tell the tale to me. Now all the chiefs who 'scaped destruction's steep, At home were safe from battle and the deep ; Save him, for wife and home with longing pained, Him, whom Calypso in her caves detained, Fair nymph and goddess, fain her guest to wed. Yet, when revolving years the season sped For his home-journey by the Gods decreed, Not yet from trials was the sufferer freed, Nor with his loved ones. But the Immortals rued His lot ; save one, whose ceaseless wrath pursued Godlike Odysseus, till his land he won. But to the ^Ethiops was Poseidon gone, Who dwell at earth's two ends, in west and east, On hecatomb of sheep and bulls to feast THE ODYSSEY, I. 1—95. 179 There sate he, joyous ; while his fellows all Were gathered in the Olympian Father's hall, Who of ^Egisthus' death himself bethought, By Agamemnon's heir Orestes wrought ; This he, beginning, to their memory brought " Lo ye ! what blame on Gods do mortals throw ! From us, they ween, from us their evils flow ; While they in their own wilfulness create New sorrows, more than all assigned by fate. So took ^Egisthus, not by fateful doom, Atreides' wife, and when her lord came home Slew him, well knowing woes that should betide ; For we had warned him by the Argicide, * Thou shalt not slay the king, nor court his wife ; Else vengeance shall arise against thy life, Soon as Orestes shall his country seek In strength of manhood.' Thus did Hermes speak ; n a 180 THE ODYSSEY, I. 1—95. But the good counsel ne'er iEgisthus swayed — And now, at once, all forfeits he hath paid." Athene, blue-eyed Goddess, made reply : u O Father, Cronos-born, of powers most high, Surely his death was his befitting meed, And so die all who imitate his deed ! But for Odysseus is my soul opprest, Woe-worn, and far from all who love him best, In a lone isle, the centre of the seas, Where, in her mansion sheltered round by trees, Abides a Goddess, crafty Atlas' child, (Atlas, who knows the deep's recesses wild, And grasps the pillars tall that hold apart The earth and Heaven) ; 'tis she that breaks the heart Of her sad captive, fondling him the while With ceaseless words of blandishment and guile, Tff E ODYSSEY, I. 1—95. 181 To make Odysseus Ithaca forget : In vain ! on that dear isle his mind is set ; Could he but see its smoke's ascending wreath, Hushed were his longings — he would welcome death. And has thy heart no pity for this pain? Did he not please thee oft with victims slain Beside the Argive fleet, on Trojan shore ? Why then in wrath afflict him evermore?" To whom the God that drives the stormy cloud : " O daughter, why are words like these allowed To pass thy lips? Bethink thee, could I e'er Forget the great Odysseus, past compare Wisest of men, and heedfullest to give Due sacrifice to those in Heaven that live Forever? No — 'tis all Poseidon's ire, The earth-surrounding God, the indignant sire Of him whom thine Odysseus hath made blind, Huge Polyphemus, chief of Cyclop kind, 18a THE ODYSSEY, I. 1—95. Whom nymph Thoosa bore (the daughter she Of Phorcys, ruler of the unfruitful sea), Who met Poseidon in a cavern's grot. Since then the stern Earth-shaker slays him not, But keeps him still a wanderer from his home. But now, that he to Ithaca may come, Tis meet we all in council here combine ; So must Poseidon needs his wrath resign, For vainly, if apart he stands as one, Against the Immortals will he strive alone." To him the blue-eyed Goddess made reply : "O Father, Cronos-born, of powers most high, If now indeed the blest ones will it so, That wise Odysseus to his home should go, To send our envoy, Hermes, it were well Unto Ogygia's island, straight to tell The fair-haired nymph our council's firm decree, That the long-patient chief restored shall be THE ODYSSEY, I. i— 95. 183 To Ithaca : and thither I repair, To kindle force and spirit in his heir; Who, roused to act, shall to the assembly call The long-haired Greeks, and bid the suitors all Pass forth from out his courts, where every day His fatted sheep and horned beeves they slay. 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