<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510031" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Virgin Of Bethlehem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Virgin of Bethlehem! spouse of the Holy One!<br>Star of the pilgrim on life’s stormy sea!<br>Humbler thy lot was than this world’s most lowly one,<br>List to the prayers that we offer to thee! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not for the joys that this false earth bestoweth,<br>Empty and fleeting as April sunshine,<br>But for the grace that from holiness floweth,<br>Grace, purest Mother, that always was thine. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Charity ardent, and zeal that abounded,<br>Thine was the will of thy Father above,<br>Thus thy life’s fervor so strangely confounded<br>Cold hearts that mocked at religion’s pure love. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Meekness in suffering, patience excelling,<br>Bowed thee, unmurm’ring, beneath sorrow’s rod;<br>Spirit of purity ever indwelling<br>Made thee the Temple and Mother of God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">These are the gifts that thy children implore,<br>With hearts warmly beating, and low bended knee;<br>Oh! ask of thy Son, whom we humbly adore,<br>To grant us the prayers that we whisper to thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rosanna+Eleanor+Leprohon">Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510031" data-title="Virgin Of Bethlehem de Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon" data-description="Virgin of Bethlehem! spouse of the Holy One! Star of the pilgrim on life’s stormy sea! Humbler thy lot was than this world’s most lowly one, List to the prayers that we offer to thee! Not for the joys that this false earth bestoweth, Empty a..."></div> </div> </div>

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