GOD sent his Singers upon earth That they might touch the hearts of men, The first, a youth, with soul of fire, Through groves he wandered, and by streams, The second, with a bearded face, A gray old man, the third and last, And those who heard the Singers three, But the great Master said, “I see I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach. "These are the three great chords of might, Will hear no discord in the three, SUSPIRIA. TAKE them, O Death! and bear away Take them, O Grave! and let them lie Take them, O great Eternity! Our little life is but a gust, That bends the branches of thy tree, HYMN FOR MY BROTHER'S ORDINATION. CHRIST to the young man said: "Yet one thing more; If thou wouldst perfect be, Sell all thou hast, and give it to the poor, And come and follow me!" Within this temple Christ again, unseen, Those sacred words hath said, And his invisible hands to-day have been Laid on a young man's head. And evermore beside him on his The unseen Christ shall move, way, That he say, Beside him at the marriage feast shall be. O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast |