Irish Jesuit Province

A Sermon in PlasterAuthor(s): Deborah WebbSource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 27, No. 315 (Sep., 1899), p. 479Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20499489 .

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A SERMON IN PLASTER.

IIIS nameless cast

Smiles from the past; Death lives in lifeless clay.

But where, 0 soul, thy home thou hast It cannot say.

There must have been

Wild grief and keen For thee, untimely gone;

And still, inelfably serene, Thou smilest on.

Some burial-place For that sweet face,

Earth unto earth, was found; But, soul, thou didst not end thy race

Low in the ground.

..Ere thou hadst fled, Ere yet was dead

Thy mortal semblance here, Soft o'er the fair young face there spread

An aureole clear.

Some blessed sight,

Some vision bright, Closed eyes, ye mnust have had.

Mute lips, no. words could tell us quite Your secret glad.

But soul can reach Through things, and teach,

And this white cast on earth Can in most eloquent silence preach

The spirit's joyfu birth.

Dsson WBn.

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