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 OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY


 * O.P.

Lepanto marks the spot of victory, O'er crescent cruel and strong, by forces weak, Of hallowed cross; of which, "if sign you seek," 'Tis not of man but a Divinity. The white-robed Pius Fifth the Rosary Uplifted like the rod of Moses, meek; Whilst Ottomans on Christians wrath would wreak And, as of old, engulfed them in the sea.

O Lady of the Rosary to-day, Thy clients all beseech thee, hear their prayer, And beg the Christ Who raging storms did quell, Bid warring nations cease their bloody fray; His power and thine honor, we declare, O Thou All-Fair, thou joy of Israel.

AT THE LEAP OF THE WATERS

, S.J.

How the swift river runs bright to its doom, Placid and shining and smooth-flowing by, Blue with the gleam of the heavenly room, Smiling and calm with the smile of the sky! Ah, but the plunge! and the shock and the roar,