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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428578" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Purple Thread</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The priests distributed various coloured silken threads to weave for the veil of the sanctuary; and it fell to Mary's lot to weave purple.'<br>—The Book of the Bee, ch. XXXIV.<br>I<br>THE chosen maidens, Weavers of the Veil,<br>Kneeling in crescent, from the High Priest took<br>Their wisps of silk in slender hands that shook<br>Lifting the colors to their lips rose-pale<br>With holy passion, —colors like the frail<br>Spring flowers of Carmel, blue as that glad look<br>Of dancing iris, scarlet as a nook<br>Of wild anemones, or gold as sail<br>Seen from its summit 'neath the Syrian moon.<br>But Mary caught her breath in one swift sob<br>Of pain uncomprehended ere it fled,<br>Leaving her heart with some strange fear a-throb,<br>For the wise priest, as one conferring boon,<br>Had meted out to her a purple thread.<br>II<br>O mothers of the race, ye blessèd ones<br>Who weave with cherubim the veil before<br>The Holy Place of God, the mystic door<br>Of life, proud mothers of belovèd sons,<br>To-day you send them forth to front the guns,<br>Waving your boys farewell with smiles that pour<br>Strength into their young souls. Your prayers implore<br>The Mercy Seat; your love, an angel, runs<br>Before them with wild, shielding arms outspread.<br>O Weavers of the Veil, however varies<br>The silk assigned, exceeding great reward<br>Is yours, for you —O you, most sacred Maries,<br>To whom is given grief's royal, purple thread —<br>Make beautiful the temple of the Lord.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katharine+Lee+Bates">Katharine Lee Bates</a><div class=q>
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