Wednesday, August 16, 2017

FOR OUR LADY'S ESPOUSALS


FOR OUR LADY'S ESPOUSALS

Goldsmith's tiny hammers
dance with joy
to shape the ring
that Mary is to wear.
        Yet God's bride needs
        no earth-made sign
        to bind her
        to His heart.

        Before the stars were made
        He gave her jewels
        and golden gowns with greater sheen
        than moonbeams might have woven,
        soft stoles more colourful than rainbow lights.

        She is God's own
        whom Joseph shadows from the world
        until the brilliance of her beauty
        blinds the sky.

Let goldsmith's hammers,
dancing, mould
a slender circlet
for her hand.

         In after-time
         standing upon a moon-throne,
         she will wear the stars for crown;
         about slim, queenly shoulders will be thrown
         the royal cloak of sunrise.

Sister M Julian RSM
Sign. April 1961

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