St. Maurice
Nora Hopper Chesson
1871 to 1906
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Whose voice with peace has somewhat tuneless grown?
When you were tried with sword and fire and wrack,
Where Love is wingless found, and Faith is sure,
Or do you sometimes wish the old time back,
And men and maidens look in God His face.
Of the heart's heal, and deadly woundes' cure,
I slept and entered in "the blissful place
There, where green leaves twine closely in a bower,
Here amid asphodels and lilies sown?
O bold St. Maurice, is it good to rest
Yet kept unhurt the bird within your breast,
St. Maurice and his Theban men mount guard,
And on each breast I saw the martyr's sard
Burn in the white cup of a lily-flower.
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