!

Ninth Piety of Rome, with whom the Keys

are,

Regent to hold God's house, to feed His flock

Where Cæsar ruled; and thou, supplanting Cæsar,

Art firm on Peter's rock.

Nicæa's thunders yet are fresh as morning, Beams in whose light the Church has 1: gone and goes ;

To-day Nicea peals in Rome her warning, Pontiff, to curse thy foes.

of of bot We come, Armenia, Gaul, Missouri, Britain ; The chosen of the chosen priests are there: To all men hath gone out his mandate written

Who fills St. Peter's chair.

Grey heads have waves Atlantic wafted scathless,

Weak feet have toiled o'er Libyan hills in

Old Bishops from the regions of the faithless

Have crept on crutches here.

To far Canadian meres of ice-bound silence,
; To cities lost in continents of sand,
To shoaling belts around Pacific islands,
The Pontiff raised his hand..

Then with one mind they came, the Bishop

leaders,

[fight,

The outpost Captains of the Church at From uplands clothed with Lebanonian cedars,

From realms of Arctic night.

Lo! we are ready at thy summons, father; Loose and we loosen, bind and we shall

bind :/ [gather, The conclave princes at thy blast shall As red leaves after wind.

Thunder the doctrine of this last evangel; Clear as the note of doom its accents sound! While men regard thine aspect as an angel In the sun's orb and crowned !

At thy reproof let nations quail in terror, And tremble at the pealing of thy word; For God hath made thy mouth His own. and error

In thy voice is not heard.

Let all be doomed on whom thy curses thunder;

Let none be righteous whom thou dost

The priesthood of a word, we kneel in wonder,

And kiss thy sacred hand.

Hear, shade of Calvin, ghost of Luther, hearken!

Ye renegades of Northern yesterday; Infidel bones, which years of silence darken, Turn and salute one ray!

Leave

vain philosophies, old dreamer Teuton,

Great drowsy fly in webs of logic weak; We silenced Galileo, menaced Newton, And Darwin shall not speak.

Behold a sign, ye sceptic sons of evil! The dogma; raising which, as Michael brave,

Our Pope confront their scientific devil
Over each unclosed grave;

Till Death and Doubt be thy tame sheep, O pastor,

Pontiff of souls and Vicar of God's choiceInfallible, in whom the spirit-master

Hath breathed his spirit voice.

Explain our faith! all faithful hear thy mandate;

Emperors watch in dread Our world debate ;

Thy fear is on all peoples!" (but the bandit Who plunders at thy gate).

NUPTIAL SONG

Sigh, heart, and break not; rest, lark, and wake not!

Day I hear coming to draw my love away, As mere waves whisper and clouds grow crisper,

Ah, like a rose he will waken up with day.

In moonlight lonely he is my love only,
I share with none when Luna rides in grey.
As dawn-beams quicken, my rivals thicken
The light and deed and turmoil of the
day.

To watch my sleeper to me is sweeter Than any waking words my love can say ; In dream he finds me and closer winds me ! Let him rest by me a little more and stay.

Ah, mine eyes, close not; and though he knows not,

My lips, on his be tender while you may ; Ere leaves are shaken, and ring-doves

Fair darkness measure thine hours, as treasure

Shed each one slowly from thine urn, I

pray;

Hoard in and cover each from my lover ;

I cannot lose him yet; dear night, delay.

Each moment dearer, true-love lie nearer ; My hair shall blind thee lest thou see the ray;

My locks encumber thine ears in slumber, Lest any bird dare give thee note of day.

He rests so calmly; we lie so warmly; Hand within hand, as children after play; In shafted amber on roof and chamber Dawn enters; my love wakens; here is day.

MISREPRESENTATION

Peace! there is nothing more for men to speak;

A larger wisdom than our lips decrees. Of that dumb mouth no longer reason seek, No censure reaches that eternal peace, And that immortal ease.

Believe them not that would disturb the end

With earth's invidious comment, idly meant.