Category: History - European
"Look, stranger; where these stones in ruin lie. Here in the old, grey times a holy thing Rose up--a cloistered pile; but time swept by And smote the sanctuary with his reckless wing." (_From the Swedish, by J. E. D. Bethune._)
"Mute is the matin bell, whose early call Warn'd the grey fathers from their humble beds; No midnight taper gleams along the wall, Or, round the sculptur'd saint its radiance sh...
4. CHAPTER I."Look, stranger; where these stones in ruin lie. Here in the old, grey times a holy thing Rose up--a cloistered pile; but time swept by And smote the sanctuary with his reckless...
9. CHAPTER VI."But I must needs confess That 'tis a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the soul's desires; And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is compet...
10. CHAPTER VII.The Religious Orders, which succeed each other in the Catholic Church, are subject to laws similar to those that govern the productions of nature. They grow from feeble and impe...
7. CHAPTER IV."Even thus of old Our ancestors, within the still domain Of vast Cathedral or Conventual church, Their vigils kept; where tapers day and night On the dim altars burned continual...
8. CHAPTER V."This is no common spot of earth, No place for idle words or mirth; Here streamed the taper's mystic light; Here flashed the waving censers bright; Awhile the Church's ancient s...
5. CHAPTER II."Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day, For what are men better than s...
6. CHAPTER III."Here man more purely lives; less oft doth fall; More promptly rises; walks with stricter heed; More safely rests; dies happier; is freed Earlier from cleansing fires; and gains...
3. CHAPTER VIII.1. CHAPTER III.2. CHAPTER IV.