The Dream of GerontiusLongmans, Green, 1888 - 60 páginas |
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afresh aid thee Alleluia Amen amid Apostles awful Beatific birth child CHOIR OF ANGELICALS Crucified day of doom dear death is past DEMONS depth and height depth be praise double agony dread DREAM dying e'en evermore evil hour fain fear fight fire flesh and blood garden shade GERONTIUS Glory grace gracious hand or foot Hark hast thou hath hear Holiest holy Hermits Jesu Judex Judex meus Judge judgment keen Kyrie eleïson Lord Mary mercy Miserere mortal name Of holy nought o'er pain pierce thee pray prayer profundis oro profundis oro te purgatory quickened Rescue Saints Sanctus Deus Sanctus fortis sense shame sight sing sins Soothed sorry sentinel spirits strange Subvenite sure Thine Thou art thou didst thou dost ask Thou hast Thou speakest thou wilt thought Throne thy bed thy hands thy lot Thy servant thy soul thyself words most wonderful
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Página 56 - There will I sing, and soothe my stricken breast, Which ne'er can cease To throb, and pine, and languish, till possest Of its Sole Peace. There will I sing my absent Lord and Love: — Take me away, That sooner I may rise, and go above, And see Him in the truth of everlasting day.
Página 51 - Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise : In all His words most wonderful ; Most sure in all His ways.
Página 10 - Simply to His grace and wholly Light and life and strength belong, And I love, supremely, solely, Him the holy, Him the strong.
Página 60 - And carefully I dip thee in the lake, And thou, without a sob or a resistance, Dost through the flood thy rapid passage take, Sinking deep, deeper, into the dim distance. Angels, to whom the willing task is given, Shall tend, and nurse, and lull thee, as thou liest; And Masses on the earth, and prayers in heaven, Shall aid thee at the Throne of the Most Highest. Farewell, but not for ever! brother dear, Be brave and patient on thy bed of sorrow; Swiftly shall pass thy night of trial here, And I will...
Página 48 - And thou wilt hate and loathe thyself; for, though Now sinless, thou wilt feel that thou hast sinned, As never thou didst feel; and wilt desire To slink away, and hide thee from His sight And yet wilt have a longing aye to dwell Within the beauty of His countenance. And these two pains, so counter and so keen, — The longing for Him, when thou seest Him not ; The shame of self at thought of seeing Him,— Will be thy veriest, sharpest purgatory.
Página 47 - When then — if such thy lot — thou seest thy Judge, The sight of Him will kindle in thy heart All tender, gracious, reverential thoughts. Thou wilt be sick with love, and yearn for Him, And feel as though thou...
Página 11 - I can no more ; for now it comes again, That sense of ruin, which is worse than pain, That, masterful negation and collapse Of all that makes me man...
Página 13 - Go forth upon thy journey, Christian soul! Go from this world! Go, in the Name of God The Omnipotent Father, who created thee! Go, in the Name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, Son of the living God, who bled for thee! Go, in the Name of the Holy Spirit, who Hath been pour'd out on thee!
Página 43 - ... savage kindred they; To flee that monster brood He scaled the seaside cave, and clomb The giants of the wood. With now a fear, and now a hope, With aids which chance supplied, From youth to eld, from sire to son, He lived and toiled and died.
Página 35 - The presentations of most holy truths, Living and strong, which now encompass thee. A disembodied soul, thou hast by right No converse with aught else beside thyself, But, lest so stern a solitude should load And break thy being, in mercy are vouchsafed Some lower measures of perception, Which seem to thee, as though through channels brought, Through ear, or nerves, or palate, which are gone. And thou art wrapp'd and swathed around in dreams...