Irish Jesuit Province
A Rainbow at Victoria FallsAuthor(s): F. C. KolbeSource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 34, No. 400 (Oct., 1906), p. 567Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20501028 .
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A RAINBOW AT VICTORIA FALLS 567
by means of translations in Germany, France, and other countries, was published by M. H. Gill & SonI and has run through four
editions. The same imprint is upon the writings of men so
utterly different as Thomas Caulfield Irwin and William John
Fitzpatrick. Other very notable items in Messrs. Gill's cata
logue are Dr. P. W. Joyce's Names of Irish Places, Mrs. Sarah
Atkinson's Essays on Irish Subjects and her Life of Mary
Aikenhead, and local and diocesan histories like Archdeacon
Fahy's Kilmacduagh and Archdeacon White's History of Clare. M. H. Gill & Son were among the first to take advantage
of the enthusiasm awakened of late years for the cultivation
of the Irish language. Long before, they had published Canon tlick Bourke's College Irish Grammar which dates back to
that good priest's student days at Maynooth, half way through
the last century. They were the first publishers also of Father
Eugene O'Growney's epoch-making Lessons in Irish. Much of Dr. Douglas Hyde's splendid Irish work, and also Father
Dinneen's, has come from this Dublin firm whose golden jubilee
we are commemorating a little behind time. Floreat in aevum !
A RAINBOW AT VICTORIA FALLS*
A CHILD, I chased the rainbow once, and wept
Because I could not reach its glorious ray.
In life's decline, I stood amid the spray
Where all Zambesi down its gorges leapt;
And as into the cloud I careless stept,
The rainbow forward moving came my way.
With round completed on the grass it lay,
And o'er my feet the rosy radiance crept.
So do we chase our fancies, and despair
At length of joys that made our youth so sweet:
Till, some day, God's ideal, now unsought,
Bodies itself in some diviner air,
And, filling with its radiance all our thought, Completes its circle at our very feet.
F. C. KOLBE.
* Dr. Kolbe calls it in a private note "one of the most beautiful
Nature-happenings that have ever come to me."
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