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Show FIRST AND LAST COMMUNION. Yes. I remember well the time, the place. Of First Communion date of rarest grace. Sweetest of childhood's happy days! For then. As when He walked amongst the sons of men. Christ in His arms raised up His little child. With soothing gesture, fatherly and mild, i And pressed him to His bosom. With the same j Unutterable tenderness He came Into our hearts full often since that day. How many more such visits shall He pay Before He comes to summon us away? How many such between us and the shore Of that dark ocean He.will waft up o'er A9 our Viaticum? Ah! none can tell 1 Save only One who keeps the secret well, j To Him I leave the manner, time and place ! Of that dread change, so He but give the grace j Of Last Communion. When ami how and where, I know not. care not; but for this I care j Dying may I my Last Communion make ' Tn peace with Him who died, too, for my sake. j And may that loving Lord my parting spirit take. Rev. Matthew Russell, S. J. j |