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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455794" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Virgin Mary</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mother of Him we call the Christ,<br>No halo round thy brows we paint,<br>Incense and prayer we offer not,<br>Nor mind to title thee as saint.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet, no woman's name, of all<br>With honour from the ages sent,<br>Mary, is aureoled like thine,<br>With love and grief and glory blent!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh wisely was it that He chose,<br>Who the unwritten future reads,<br>To teach the after-world, through thee,<br>What cherishers Messiah needs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou heard'st the angel's prophecy,<br>The tidings which the shepherds brought,<br>Anna and Simeon praising God,<br>And saw'st that star the Wise Men sought!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, who of us could bear, like thee,<br>With meekness, God's triumphal light;<br>Then, still believing, with His Charge,<br>At midnight take an exile's flight?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Throughout the Son's long helplessness<br>His good was to thine own preferred;<br>May we so serve; and still, like Thee,<br>Stand back to let His voice be heard!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dispenser once of earthly things,<br>Thy Best-Beloved thou didst see;<br>God's hands for others blessing-full,<br>Could we be poor and glad like thee?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soul-pierced with sword-like agony,<br>Not felon's taunt nor soldier's jest;<br>Beside the God-forsaken Cross,<br>Could drive thee from it like the rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Christ's banner thou alone didst hold<br>In face of all His foes displayed;<br>Valiant through all defeat, and but<br>Heart-stricken that He was betrayed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, Mary! Could we stand, like thee,<br>Steadfast; and watch the vowed depart;<br>And grieve for their defection less<br>Than for the Saviour's wounded heart?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How must the God, who favour set<br>On David once and kingly Saul,<br>And yet foresaw their wanderings,<br>And loved them through and after all</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How must He seal the prophecy,<br>Declaring thee forever blest,<br>Whose whole life showed thy worthiness<br>Of that pure Child thine arms had pressed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O single-hearted one to kiss<br>The lifeless and dishonored head,<br>Fondly as when its baby brow,<br>By angel wings was canopied!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O self-forgetful, to rejoice<br>For that Heaven's entrance had been found<br>By the Beloved: thou content<br>Thenceforth, alone to close life's round!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the bright future, sure, though far,<br>Again, as once, the wide air rings<br>With praise to Christ! Thy vigil ends,<br>Meek daughter of a hundred kings!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Virgin, may we partake thy joy,<br>When Heaven and loyal earth shall lay<br>At the pierced feet of David's son<br>A crown He will not put away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Hannay+Foott">Mary Hannay Foott</a><div class=q>
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No halo round thy brows we paint,
Incense and prayer we offer not,
Nor mind to title thee as saint.

And yet, no woman's name, of all
With honour from the ages sent,
Mary, is aureoled like thine,
With love and gri..."></div>
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