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Show .- "SURSUM CORDA."' - :i (For the Inter Mountain Catholic.) My heart was lonely amid the gay, . No soul brought a gift to mine. And I heard a voice to my unrest say: "Kneel thou at a purer shrine!" A heavenly spirit floated by, ' And brushed me vith his wing; I felt the touch, and I looked on high But I saw no living thing. . Yet sometimes a fragment, of heavenly song Would my restless heart subdue; And on strange, sweet chords would vibrate long Till thought , into music grew. Years passed, and life brought its many cares: Forgot whs the heavenly song. I knelt no more by the altar stairs, Cut jdst ied amid the throng, Tiil my brain grew numb with a weary pain; And the stars of heaven were dim. Then I fiighed "Oh: to waken thoae chords again, And recall that grand sweet hymn:" "Iii vain; it was only u dream of youth; The -romance of life is o'er!" Said one who assumed the garb of Truth; , "Take what is; and dream no more!" But once, when I knelt at . the Master's feet, "With my heart-strings out of tune; They thrilied -to a strain of music, sweet As of leaves in the month of June. It deepened and swelled; and the notes grew clear; And the song took a loftier strain; .'Twas a heart that spoke, and I needs must hear; I had found the lost chords again. They were fastened above, by the hand of Love; And. an f.ngel swept the lyre! And one that was winged like a snow-white dove, Leant, beckoning me up higher. The sky was' alight; and the stars were bright; And the cloud had left the heaven! j To Him who giveth "songs in 'the night," 1 offered praise at even, . rtcv. Geo. Harding. |