EMBERTIDE.
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saw a Saint.—How canst thou tell that heThou sawest was a Saint?—I saw one like to Christ so luminouslyBy patient deeds of love, his mortal taintSeemed made his groundwork for humility. And when he marked me downcast utterlyWhere foul I sat and faint,Then more than ever Christ-like kindled he;And welcomed me as I had been a saint,Tenderly stooping low to comfort me. Christ bade him, “Do thou likewise.” Wherefore heWaxed zealous to acquaintHis soul with sin and sorrow, if so beHe might retrieve some latent saint:—“Lo, I, with the child God hath given to me!”
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