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A Parable of the Rose (1908)
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OAN Gabriel! I stand and wonder at thy walls So old, so quaint; a glory falls Upon them as I view the past, And read the story which thou hast Preserved so well. San Gabriel! I gaze and marvel at thy towers, Thy belfry strange through which the hours Fleet-footed crowd two hundred years, Whose echoing music yet appears In each sweet bell. San Gabriel! What souls were they who fashioned thee To be a blessed charity! What faith was theirs who bore the cross, And counted wealth and ease but loss Of Christ to tell! San Gabriel! Before thy gates what heavy tolls Have fallen from sin-burdened souls! Within thy walls what new desires Of love have quenched fierce hatred's fires, From nave and cell! San Gabriel! What guidance hast thou flashed along The ways of savagery and wrong, And shamed th' unholy and unkind, The theftuous hand, the murderous mind, Ere ravage fell! San Gabriel! A glamour of the ancient time Remains with thee! Thou hast the rime Of some old poem, and the scent Of some old rose's ravishment Naught can dispel! San Gabriel! From Mexico to Monterey Thy sisters greet thee 'midst decay; But thou dost stand a living thing, And round thee living passions cling And voices swell! San Gabriel! Within thee all my doubtings cease; I find the holy Prince of Peace; And feel the thrill of brotherhood Betwixt my soul and those who stood For this same faith, for this same world, And Christ's one flag of love unfurled! San Gabriel! San Gabriel! I own thy sweet and mystic spell.T CARE not for the Spring as once I did. I miss the gladness of those earlier years When, in the orchard where the robins hid Their nests 'mid bloomy coverts, eyes and Caught mime and rime of mystic rhapsodies, As Life and Joy disporte...
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Item Specifications...
Pages 34
Dimensions: Length: 9.02" Width: 5.98" Height: 0.2"
Weight: 0.32 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Aug 9, 2009
ISBN 0217153941
EAN 9780217153942
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