OUR LADY OF THE TWILIGHT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1008, 24 December 1910, Page 11

OUR LADY OF THE TWILIGHT.

Our Lady of the Twilight.. . • -■■j • From,, out the sunset-lauds.. ' -I Comes gentiy stealing, o'er the world '' And. stretches outtier hands: . j Over the'blotched and-broken wall, ' , ' The blind and. foetid lane, . 'She stretches out lier : honds and-all Is beautiful again. No factory ■ chimney's can defile ' y The beauty of-her dress— ' " She, bends down with her heavenly srnilo io .heal.and love . and bless: All tortured things, all evil powers All shapes. of dark distress, . ' ; She turns to fragrance and to flowers Beneath her kind caress. Our Lady of the' Twilight . ' She, melts our prisoii-.fcars, She makes the sea. forget the shore, ; viho' iills the sky ,with" stars, ,-■ • • And stooping over wliarf. and* mill,.' Chimney and'shed and dome, ' • She makes them fairy palaces, - Then calls children' home. : She stcops to bless the stuntedr tree 1 . And.from the furrowed plain 1 ... 1 And from the wrinkled' brow she smooths The lines of card'and pain-U - r ' Hc-rs are the gentle hands and eyes ] And hers the peaceful breath:' That ope in sunset-softened skies . The quiet gates of death; . Our' Lady of . the Twilight, , J She hath such gentle hands—.. , ! And lovely are the gifts she brings' '•'•1 Prom out tho sunset-lands!— ■! So bountiful, so merciful, . i So sweet of soul is she, ..." .1 That over all the world she' draw 3 . j Her clcak .of charity. : . j '■' : /T-By-: Alfred Noycs, .' ,1