...must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm. " ' Circlewise sit they, with bound locks And foreheads...birth-robes for them Who are just born, being dead. " ' Herself shall bring us, hand in hand, To Him round whom all souls Kneel, the clear-ranged unnumbered...

...Lord, Lord, has he not pray'df Are not two prayers a perfect strength ? And shall I feel afraid t " We two," she said, " will seek the groves Where the lady Mary is, " He shall fear, haply, and be dumb : Then will I lay my cheek To his, and tell about onr lore. Not...

...• i , Lord, has he not pnty'd ? Arc not two prayers a perfect strength! And shall I feel afraid! " We two," she said, "will seek the groves Where the lady Mary is, " He shall fear, haply, and be dumb : Then will I lay my cheek To his, and tell about our love, Not...

...with me That once of old. But shall God lift To endless unity The soul whose likeness with thy soul 'We two,' she said, ' will seek the groves Where the...birth-robes for them Who are just born, being dead. 1 ' He shall fear, haply, and be dumb : Then will I lay my cheek To his, and tell about our love, Not...

...damozels," " citherns," and " citoles," and addresses the mother of Christ as the " Lady Mary,"— " With her five handmaidens, whose names Are five sweet...Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, Margaret, and Rosalys." A suspicion is awakened that the writer is laughing at us. We hover uncertainly between picturesqueness...

...Dantesque in its homely sublimity is the conception of Our Lady and her handmaids at their weaving : " Into the fine cloth, white like flame, Weaving the...birth-robes for them Who are just born, being dead." We hardly think that this poem of Mr. Rosetti's strikes a single false chord even to Catholic ears....

...But shall God lift To endless unity The soul whose likeness with thy soul Was but its love for thee?) "We two," she said, "will seek the groves Where the...birth-robes for them Who are just born, being dead. THE BLESSED DAMOZEL. " He shall fear, haply, and be dumb : Then will I lay my cheek To his, and tell...

...shall God lift To endless unity The soul whose likeness with thy soul Was but its love for thee?) " 1 1 wish that he were come to me, "He shall fear, haply, and be dumb: For he will come," she said....

...with me That once of old. But shall God lift To endless unity The soul whose likeness with thy soul ' We two,' she said, ' will seek the groves Where the...sweet symphonies, Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, Margaret r.nd Rosalys. ' Circlewise sit they, with bound locks And foreheads garlanded; Into the fine cloth...

...that vast brotherhood ? L reminded me of Dante G. Rossetti's lines in " The Blessed Damozel" — " Weaving the golden thread To fashion the birth-robes for them Who are just born — being dead." Is it, indeed, possible that the indwelling spirit, caterpillarwise, weaves out of its own electric...