The Burial of the Dead. 70. CEASE, ye tearful mourners! Thus your hearts to rend; Death is life's beginning Rather than its end. What though now to darkness We this body give; And from its corruption This was once the mansion Here eternal Wisdom O divinest Period! Speed upon thy way; O eternal Justice! Make no more delay. Amen. 71. GR The Vigils of Saints' Days. REAT GOD, Whose Strength Thy martyrs steel'd To follow Thy Unrivall❜d Son, By Whom they braved the battle field, Thy Strength, by sin assailed, we pray To guard us from the ills of life. The chains by Thee were loosed, that held Away the world's vile bonds to throw ! O, be it ours, like them, to win The vesture white, the branching palm; To Thee, above Thy heavenly Host, O FATHER, on Thy Glory's Throne; And join'd with Thee, the HOLY GHOST, And, Virgin-born, th' Incarnate SON. Amen. 72. The Conversion of St. Paul. AINST what foeman art thou rushing? Innocents in fury crushing, Children of the sinless One: Whom thou hatest, His just Power thou shalt own! See! the LORD, from Heaven descending, Humbly, meekly, to the blow; Friend to CHRIST, no longer foe. Breathing slaughter, chains preparing, Now into a lamb is turn'd. CHRIST, Thy Power is man's salvation, Hardest hearts Thou mak'st Thine own: That Thy Name might be o'erthrown, Through the world that Name makes known. Praise the FATHER, GOD of Heaven, Both to suffer, and to die : Praise the SPIRIT, Guiding us most lovingly. Amen. The Purification of St. Mary the Virgin. ION, ope Thy hallow'd dome: 73. To His Temple CHRIST is come: Lifeless shadows, haste away, Grace and Truth beam forth to-day. More than dove-like Sacrifice. Aged Simeon sees at last Hopes foretold from ages past; Yearning Faith so long hath known. Glory be to FATHER, SON, And Blest SPIRIT, THREE IN ONE. Faithful hearts in ceaseless praise. Amen. The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 74. No inferior Angel; But Gabriel He summons, Go forth on thy message, By the might of thy word. Draw nigh,-speak the tidings,— And say, Fear not Thou, And, The Lord is with thee. The word she receiveth, Believeth, conceiveth, And beareth the SON; And His Name shall be call'd |