April 2
Companions of the Way (Evening)Whatsoever things are lovely.
VESTIS ANGELICA.
O GATHER, gather! Stand Round her on either hand!
O shining angel-band
More pure than priest!
A garment white and whole
Weave for this passing sou
Whose earthly joy and dole
Have almost ceased.
Weave it of mothers' prayers,
Of sacred thoughts and cares,
Of peace beneath grey hairs,
Of hallowed pain;
Weave it of vanished tears,
Of childlike hopes and fears,
Of joys, by saintly years
Washed free from stain.
Weave it of happy hours,
Of smiles and summer flowers,
Of passing sunlit showers,
Of acts of love;
Of footsteps that did go
Amid life's work and woe,—
Her eyes still fixed below,
Her thoughts above.
THOMAS
WENT-
WORTH
HIGGIN-
SON