1.
THOU sainted Spirit! from the realms of light
Look down propitious on thy child below,
Direct my thoughts, and guide my steps aright,
Teach me my duty and my cares to know.
2.
If, in the regions of eternal Day,
The things of earth may claim one thought of thine,
Vouchsafe thy aid, to bless thy children’s way,
And emulate thy excellence divine.
3.
At the bright summit of the heav’nly mount,
My Mother shines in glorious robes array’d,
Smiling she sits, by pleasure’s endless fount,
Enjoying day without returning shade.
4.
Methinks I see her in th’ Angelic throng,
With golden harp amid the heavenly choir,
Through Sister Spirits as she glides along,
E’en seraphs pause to wonder and admire.
5.
Oh! say, sweet Saint, in that celestial clime,
Pure as thy soul, and spotless as thy mind,
Oh! art thou conscious to the things of time!
Dost thou e’er cast an anxious look behind?
6.
Dost thou behold thy much-lov’d husband’s breast,
Lull every grief, and bid each pulse be calm?
Oh! dost thou sooth his every care to rest,
And, as on earth, diffuse thy healing balm?
7.
Perhaps thy guardian Spirit hovers round,
And shields him still within thy circling arms,
Perhaps, unseen, thou healest many a wound,
Serenely smiling in celestial charms.
8.
Watch o’er him still, be still his angel friend,
Guard him from pain, and wipe away the tear;
From thy ethereal throne, benignly bend,
And point his view to Mary, blooming there.
9.
In gloomy Melancholy’s pensive hour,
Sweetly descend, and softly whisper peace,
Direct his eyes to yonder happy bower,
Where woe shall fade away, and sorrow cease.
10.
Though hundred angels bore thee hence away
To Heaven, thy home; to Happiness, thy prize;
The vale of death burst not the bands of love,
They reach from earth to strengthen in the skies.
11.
Congenial spirits still hold converse sweet,
Death does the mortal part alone destroy;
In sacred solitude, and calm retreat,
From earthly cares escap’d, we taste of joy.
12.
A ray of Heaven will sometimes brightly gleam,
A moment of delight, a spark divine!
The “City of the King of kings” will beam
The “New Jerusalem” in glory shine.
13.
In these sweet moments of refin’d delight,
Wilt thou, my Mother, aid my rising thoughts,
And teach my soul, with faith’s unerring sight,
To pierce the veil, and join your angel-notes?
14.
Be still my Mother! though a Seraph now,
Still let me speak to thy maternal ear;
And, while before thy purity I bow,
Forgive my errors, my entreaties hear.
15.
Through higher systems, and through worlds unknown,
Thy radiant form in cloudless glory moves,
To starry realms thy perfect soul is flown,
To heavenly friendships and immortal loves.
16.
When thy last smile, which brightened earth, was fled,
And the last lustre of thine eye was gone,
Adoring friends around mourn’d Mary dead,
While in the worlds of light she brightly shone.
17.
While heav’nly music lull’d her soul to rest,
On cherub wings her infant soar’d on high,
Then, with the spotless train, in glory drest,
Welcom’d his mother to her native sky.
18.
May her bright virtue all our hearts inspire,
And elevate our hopes, our joys above,
Till we again shall meet, in blissful choir,
And spend an Immortality in Love!
(Mary Abel Clinckett)
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