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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