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PERPETUAL LIGHT
"Ah, do not turn to me that face which is no longer
of this world!... There are enough angels to
serve the mass in Heaven! Have pity on me, who
am only a man without wings, who rejoiced in this
companion God had given me, and that I should
hear her sigh with her head resting on my shoulder!...
the bitterness like the bitterness of
myrrh... And for you age is already come.
But how hard it is to renounce when the heart is
young!"
"THE TIDINGS BROUGHT TO MARY"
PERPETUAL
LIGHT
A Memorial.
BY
WILLIAM ROSE BEN?T
..that we may be able to arrive
with pure minds at the festival
of perpetual light. Through the
same Christ our Lord. Amen.
--_Oremus._
DEDICATION
TO KATHLEEN AND MARGARET
Think of no verse when you read this,
But think of her alone
And her enduring benefice,
Sunlight on stone.
For day is stone and night is stone
Save she has made them bright,
Now she knows all that may be known
Of day and night.
Courage like hers we have from her,
Strength to be straight and brave,
And noble memories that recur
And heal and save.
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