The nuns sing, “_ora pro nobis_,”
The lancets glitter above;
And the beautiful Virgin whose robe is
Woven of infinite love,
Infinite love and sorrow,
Prays for them there on high;–
Who has most need of her prayers,–to-morrow
Shall tell them,–they or I?
Up in the hills together
We loved, where the world seemed true;
Our world of the whin and heather,
Our skies of a nearer blue,
A blue from which one borrows
A faith that helps one die–
O Mother, sweet Mother of Sorrows,
None needs such more than I!
We lived, we loved unwedded–
Love’s sin and its shame that slays!–
No ill of the year we dreaded,
No day of its coming days;
Its coming days, their many
Trials by morn and night,
And I know no land, not any,
Where love’s lilies grow so white!
Was he false to me, my Mother!
Or I to him, my God!–
Who gave thee right, O brother!
To take God’s right and rod!
God’s rod of avenging morrows,
And the life here in my side!
O Mother, God’s Mother of Sorrows,
For both I would have died!
By the wall of the Chantry kneeling,
I pray and the organ rings,
“_Gloria! gloria!_” pealing,
“_Sancta Maria_” sings!
They will find us dead to-morrow
By the wall of their nunnery,
O Mother, sweet Mother of Sorrow!
His unborn babe and me.
(Madison Julius Cawein)
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