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Our Lady of the WayAuthor(s): Elsa SchmidtSource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 42, No. 491 (May, 1914), p. 286Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20503566 .

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286 THE IRISH MONTHLY

" Amen."P He awoke in his stall, his brethren around him, the

Office begun. From that day his face wore a smile of peace, a smile that

remained alike in season of sorrow as in titne of joy; in his

heart he bore always a longing for the time when he should hear again and for ever the strains of the eternal song of praise.

MARY CAHILL.

OUR LADY OF THE WAY

A VILANELLE.

THE ways of life were glowing green In Spring, the budding of the year,

A very bow'r for Maytime's Queen.

In my past Springr

Her robe's white sheen Lit thro' the flowers my pathway clear The ways of Life were glowing green.

Then fairer, richer grew the scene, A Summer garden dear-how dear ! A very bow'r for Maytime's Queen.

And here my feet had strayed, I ween, Had She who kept me not been near, The ways of Life were glowing green.

I tread an Autumn road serene (Lone miles, yet kept by her from fear)

A very bow'r for Maytime's Queen.

Beyond the snows my Goal is seen, And Spring eterne my song shall hear, " The Ways of Life were glowing green, A very bow'r for Maytime's Queen I "

ELSA SCHMIDT.

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