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To the Children of Mary of the Cathedral of Mobile	A
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In the mystical dim of the temple	A
In the dream haunted dim of the day	B
The sunlight spoke soft to the shadows	C
And said With my gold and your gray	B
Let us meet at the shrine of the Virgin	D
And ere her fair feast pass away	B
Let us weave there a mantle of glory	E
To deck the last evening of May	B
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The tapers were lit on the altar	F
With garlands of lilies between	G
And the steps leading up to the statue	H
Flashed bright with the roses' red sheen	G
The sun gleams came down from the heavens	I
Like angels to hallow the scene	G
And they seemed to kneel down with the shadows	C
That crept to the shrine of the Queen	G
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The singers their hearts in their voices	J
Had chanted the anthems of old	K
And the last trembling wave of the Vespers	J
On the far shores of silence had rolled	K
And there at the Queen Virgin's altar	F
The sun wove the mantle of gold	K
While the hands of the twilight were weaving	L
A fringe for the flash of each fold	K
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And wavelessly in the deep silence	J
Three banners hung peaceful and low	M
They bore the bright blue of the heavens	J
They wore the pure white of the snow	M
And beneath them fair children were kneeling	L
Whose faces with graces aglow	M
Seemed sinless in land that is sinful	A
And woeless in life full of woe	M
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Their heads wore the veil of the lily	E
Their brows wore the wreath of the rose	J
And their hearts like their flutterless banners	J
Were stilled in a holy repose	J
Their shadowless eyes were uplifted	N
Whose glad gaze would never disclose	J
That from eyes that are most like the heavens	J
The dark rain of tears soonest flows	J
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The banners were borne to the railing	L
Beneath them a group from each band	O
And they bent their bright folds for the blessing	L
That fell from the priest's lifted hand	O
And he signed the three fair silken standards	J
With a sign never foe could withstand	O
What stirred them The breeze of the evening	L
Or a breath from the far angel land	O
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Then came two by two to the altar	F
The young and the pure and the fair	P
Their faces the mirror of Heaven	Q
Their hands folded meekly in prayer	P
They came for a simple blue ribbon	Q
For love of Christ's Mother to wear	P
And I believe with the Children of Mary	E
The Angels of Mary were there	P
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Ah faith simple faith of the children	Q
You still shame the faith of the old	K
Ah love simple love of the little	A
You still warm the love of the cold	K
And the beautiful God who is wandering	L
Far out in the world's dreary wold	K
Finds a home in the hearts of the children	Q
And a rest with the lambs of the fold	K
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Swept a voice was it wafted from Heaven	Q
Heard you ever the sea when it sings	J
Where it sleeps on the shore in the night time	R
Heard you ever the hymns the breeze brings	J
From the hearts of a thousand bright summers	J
Heard you ever the bird when she springs	J
To the clouds till she seems to be only	E
A song of a shadow on wings	J
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Came a voice and an Ave Maria	S
Rose out of a heart rapture thrilled	T
And in the embrace of its music	U
The souls of a thousand lay stilled	T
A voice with the tones of an angel	A
Never flower such a sweetness distilled	T
It faded away but the temple	A
With its perfume of worship was filled	T
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Then back to the Queen Virgin's altar	F
The white veils swept on two by two	H
And the holiest halo of heaven	Q
Flashed out from the ribbons of blue	H
And they laid down the wreaths of the roses	J
Whose hearts were as pure as their hue	H
Ah they to the Christ are the truest	V
Whose loves to the Mother are true	H
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And thus in the dim of the temple	A
In the dream haunted dim of the day	B
The Angels and Children of Mary	E
Met ere their Queen's Feast passed away	B
Where the sun gleams knelt down with the shadows	J
And wove with their gold and their gray	B
A mantle of grace and of glory	E
For the last lovely evening of May	B

Abram Joseph Ryan

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