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And Angels who around their glorious Queen In adoration bent their heads abased; And infant faces in their dreams were seen Hovering on cherub wings; and Spirits placed To be their guards invisible, who chased With fiery arms their fiendish foes away: Such visions overheated fancy traced, Peopling the night with a confused array That made its hours of rest more restless than the day.

To all who from an old erratic course Of life, within the Jesuit's fold were led, The change was perilous. They felt the force Of habit, when till then in forests bred, A thick perpetual umbrage overhead, They came to dwell in open hght and air. This ill the Fathers long had learnt to dread, And still devised such means as might prepare The new-reclaim'd unhurt this total change to bear.