Nor slight the warning sound: "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet "The place where man his God shall meet, "Be sure, is holy ground." PALM SUNDAY. And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. St. Luke xix. 40. YE whose hearts are beating high With the pulse of Poesy, Heirs of more than royal race, Fram'd by Heaven's peculiar grace, And a life that ne'er grows old Sovereign masters of all hearts! He hath chosen you, to lead His Hosannas here below ;- But if ye should hold your peace, Stars, His guiding hand that own, Stones in earth's dark womb that rest, High and low in choir shall meet, Ere His Name shall be unblest. Lord, by every minstrel tongue That thine angels' harps may ne'er Fail to find fit echoing here: We the while, of meaner birth, Dare not hope to join on earth, But should thankless silence seal Should bards in idol-hymns profane Noblest things find vilest using,) Then waken into sound divine The very pavement of thy shrine, Till we, like Heaven's star-sprinkled floor, Faintly give back what we adore. If it flow from childlike hearts. MONDAY BEFORE EASTER. Doubtless Thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of ns, and Israel acknowledge us not. Isaiah Ixiii. 16. "FATHER to me Thou art and Mother dear, heart”— "And Brother too, kind husband of my We own the Crucified in weal or woe. Strange to our ears the church-bells of our home, The fragrance of our old paternal fields May be forgotten; and the time may come When the babe's kiss no sense of pleasure yields Even to the doting mother: but thine own Iliad. vi. 429, |