The Burial of the Dead. 70. Thus your hearts to rend; EASE, ye tearful mourners! Death is life's beginning Rather than its end. What though now to darkness And from its corruption yore. This was once the mansion Of a soul endow'd Here eternal Wisdom O divinest Period! O eternal Justice! Make no more delay. Amen. 71. G 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; And, free from sorrow as from sin, To chant to Thee the holy psalm, To Thee, above Thy heavenly Host, 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, 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 : Guiding us most lovingly. Amen. The Purification of St. Mary the Virgin. ION, ope Thy hallow'd dome: 73. SI Hip Temple CHRIST is come: Lifeless shadows, haste away, eye Lo! the Virgin's downcast 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, 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, That lowliest one, Believeth, conceiveth, And beareth the SON; And His Name shall be call'd |