PART III.

In vain thine altars do they heap 83 Babylon 84 The golden rains are dashed against 85 Sedes Sapientiae 86 Sedes Sapientiae 87 Here, in this paradise of light 88 Fest. B.V.M. de Monte Carmelo 89 Come from the midnight mountain tops 91 Advocata Nostra 92 Thronus Trinitatis 93 Cultus Sanctorum 94 Fest. S. S. Trinitatis 96 Where is the crocus now, that first 98 "Ad Nives" 99 Fest. Puritatis 101 Cloud-piercing Mountains! Chance and Change 103 Foederis Arca 104 Domus Aurea 105 Respexit Humilitatem 106 Respexit Humilitatem 107 "Sine Labe originali Concepta" 109 "Sine Labe originali Concepta" 110 Brow-bound with myrtle and with gold 111 Corpus Christi 112 Corpus Christi 114 Pleasant the swarm about the bough 115 Sing on, wide winds, your anthems vast 116 Coeli enarrant 117 Caro factus est 119 A woman "clothed with the sun" 121 No ray or all their silken sheen 122

Epilogue 125

_PROLOGUE._

That sun-eyed Power which stands sublime Upon the rock that crowns our globe, Her feet on all the spoils of time, With light eternal on her robe,

She, sovereign of the orb she guides, On Truth's broad sun may root a gaze That deepens, onward as she rides, And shrinks not from the fontal blaze:

But they--her daughter Arts--must hide Within the cleft, content to see Dim skirts of glory waving wide, And steps of parting Deity.

'Tis theirs to watch Religion break In types from Nature's frown or smile, The legend rise from out the lake, The relic consecrate the isle.

'Tis theirs to adumbrate and suggest; To point toward founts of buried lore; Leaving, in reverence, unexpressed What Man must know not, yet adore.

For where her court true Wisdom keeps, 'Mid loftier handmaids, one there stands Dark as the midnight's starry deeps, A Slave, gem-crowned, from Nubia's sands.

O thou whose light is in thy heart Love-taught Submission! without thee Science may soar awhile; but Art Drifts barren o'er a shoreless sea.

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MAY CAROLS