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Lyra Evangelistica: Missionary Verses Of Mashonaland (1909)
Lyra Evangelistica Missionary Verses Of Mashonaland - 1909 Author:Arthur Shearly Cripps MISSIONARY VERSES - Epiphany . . l3enediction . . Disillusion . . 111 Deserto . . Near Sunset . . Angelus-time . . After- lorv . . Tlvilight lieces, I 3 5 I I , I11 . l t Night .. o u t o f due Time .-l Iagans Eaptisnl First Clomrnunic n . . Ordinatio . . . . Adr-ent i u .-lfrica . . Christmas, I. . . I 11. . . I I 111. . . l P IV. . . 1 9 V. . ... more ». I I . CONTENTS . PAGE. Twelfth Night . . . . . . 33 Good Friday . . . . . . 35 An Easter Hymn . . . . 36 Ascension-Day . . . . . . 37 Whitsuntide . . . . . . 38 Emberticles. I . . . . . 39 P I1 . . . . . 40 , 111 Saints Day . . . . - 11 Certain Patron Saints-1.-Our Lady . . . . 43 I1 ..-Saint Joseph . . . . 44 I11 .-Saint Francis . . . . 45 IV --For Saint Cecilvs 1 av - 1 V --Saint Austi11 . . . . 47 1 . Saints of . f l c a . . - 4 S Idol-e Pagan . . . . . . 55 Spring-I . .. . aitin for the 1C tins . . 57 11.-AfterICains .. . . 58 Sum ner K ai11. Song. s. I . . . 53 I . I 1 . . . Go Iutumn . . . . . . G I Winter Veld-Fires . . . . 62 1 dead Chameleor . . . . 0.3 A Franciscan Irayer . . . . 04 To some Ioet in Englancl . . 65 THE I V A . Ad Viam lriator . . Missa Viatoris . . . . Way-Song . . . . fo the Veld . . . . I. igh triing Song . . On a Steamship near Suez The Lost Way . . . . 3 0 my Carriers . . . . J y a Camp-Fire . . . It a Tree Altar . . . . The Veld-Fires Visiori . . lietrospect . . . . HAT O I I N T R - FRO31 LVHESCE WE CAblE OUT A Refrain .. . . . . 2 Lyke-W7ake Carol . . . . Encamped in April . . . . Essex . . . . . . . . Oxford in Africa . . . . The Round . . . . . - After Three Years . . . . At Michaelmas . . . . . . Fold Song . . . . . . Dreams of Passage . . . . At Christmas . . .. .. The Changeling . . . . To a Home Missionary . . . . FCecession a1 . . . . . . To certain new Shepherds . . 101 Not by Might . . . . . . 102 Black and White . . .. 103 Ecclesiastes in Mashonaland .. 104 Shepherds to Shepherds . . 107 A Pilgrimage . . . . .. 110 Time of Famine-I .-. Golden Drouth . . 111 11.-Christmas in Famine . . 112 111.-On a Mealie Crop .. 113 1V.-Found Starved . . 114 V .-Les Revenants . . I15 Mors Africana . . . . .. 116 Requiescat . . . . . . 1x9 Resurgat . . . .. 120 A Bishops Le lve-Taking . . 121 On the Sailing of a Bishop for Home 122 Death on a Mission . . .. 123 In the Heat . . . . .. 124 Nunc Llimittis . . . . . . 125 THE DAYS WORK. N A Y , not gold At His Crib I hold Base metal is mine heart, and bare my hand. I Inay not canopy His Altars high With warm blue wreaths. How cold and ashen - dry These prayers that I had planned Myrrh at His Cross foot I lay-All my dull worth of patience harshly strong To plod by day or night my short life long Grim on Gods errands gay His own parched foot-sore way THE DAYS VOKK. BENEDICTION. Sl ltvise a fter might-tmvelliltg . T H O as it were a crypt I pace My long night vigil through, Within the church of God I am-His dome of frescoed blue. I pass deep stoups in earthly floors Where heavenly roof-gerns show-Niches oer lustral waters set Where worms dim candles glow-Wind-carven pillars of the trees Where horned owls Lauds are said-Slab, plinth, and pile, the cenotaphs Of the long crumbled dead. A jewelled Eikon of my Lord Glitters to East afar-Louting upon one knee I hail The Bright and Morning Star...« less