Le Songe de Gérontius

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Imprimerie de F. Le Blanc-Hardel, 1869 - 85 pages
 

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Page 8 - Firmly I believe and truly God is Three, and God is One; And I next acknowledge duly Manhood taken by the Son. And I trust and hope most fully In that manhood crucified; And each thought and deed unruly Do to death, as He has died. Simply to His grace and wholly Light and life and strength belong, And I love, supremely solely, Him the holy, Him the strong. Sanctus fortis, Sanctus Deus, De profundis oro te...
Page 20 - So much I know, not knowing how I know, That the vast universe, where I have dwelt, Is quitting me, or I am quitting it. Or I or it is rushing on the wings Of light or lightning on an onward course, And we e'en now are million miles apart. Yet ... is this peremptory severance Wrought out in lengthening measurements of space, Which grow and multiply by speed and time?
Page 24 - It is a member of that family Of wondrous beings, who, ere the worlds were made, Millions of ages back, have stood around The throne of God: — he never has known sin...
Page 74 - O generous love! that he, who smote in Man for man the foe, the double agony in Man for man should undergo; And in the garden secretly, and on the cross on high, should teach his brethren, and inspire to suffer and to die.
Page 4 - O loving friends, your prayers! • — 'tis he!. . . As though my very being had given way, As though I was no more a substance now, And could fall back on nought to be my stay, (Help, loving Lord! Thou my sole Refuge, Thou,) And turn no whither, but must needs decay And drop from out the universal frame Into that shapeless, scopeless, blank abyss, That utter nothingness, of which I came...
Page 18 - He's gone;" and then a sigh went round the room. And then I surely heard a priestly voice Cry "Subvenite;" and they knelt in prayer. I seem to hear him still; but thin and low, And fainter and more faint the accents come, As at an ever-widening interval.
Page 22 - Oh, what a heart-subduing melody! ANGEL My work is done, My task is o'er, And so I come, Taking it home, For the crown is won, Alleluia, For evermore. My Father gave In charge to me This child of earth E'en from its birth, To serve and save, Alleluia, And saved is he.
Page 16 - ... thee! Go, in the name Of Angels and Archangels; in the name Of Thrones and Dominations; in the name Of Princedoms and of Powers; and in the name Of Cherubim and Seraphim, go forth! Go, in the name of Patriarchs and Prophets; And of Apostles and Evangelists, Of Martyrs and Confessors; in the name Of holy Monks and Hermits; in the name Of Holy Virgins; and all Saints of God, Both men and women, go! Go on thy course; And may thy place to-day be found in peace, And may thy dwelling be the Holy Mount...
Page 16 - Go forth upon thy journey, Christian soul! Go from this world! Go, in the name of God The omnipotent Father, who created thee! Go, in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, Son of the living God, who bled for thee! Go, in the name of the Holy Spirit, who Hath been...
Page 2 - Tis this new feeling, never felt before, (Be with me, Lord, in my extremity!) That I am going, that I am no more. 'Tis this strange innermost abandonment, (Lover of souls! great God! I look to Thee,) This emptying out of each constituent And natural force, by which I come to be. Pray for me...

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