QUEEN OF APOSTLES
There
is so little left us that you said
who
knew so much! Yet what more could you
say,
knowing
the Word? Your lips must still obey
the
intuïtions of your soul that fed
on
pondered silences, as, wonder-led,
men
came with glad-eyed worship, on a day
when
God-made-man upon your bosom lay
Who,
after, found no place to rest His head.[1]
Because
you spoke so little, our slow speech
blessed
by your silence vibrates through the world
until
all nations, listening attent,
have
heard the truth. Our faltering accents
reach
farther
than heaven’s loud thunders echoing hurled:
for
by your silence we are eloquent.
Sister Mary of the Visitation
Marian Library Collection
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