St. Maurice

Nora Hopper Chesson

1871 to 1906

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Whose voice with peace has somewhat tuneless grown? 
O bold St. Maurice, is it good to rest 
Here amid asphodels and lilies sown? 
And on each breast I saw the martyr's sard 
St. Maurice and his Theban men mount guard, 
There, where green leaves twine closely in a bower, 
Burn in the white cup of a lily-flower. 
Of the heart's heal, and deadly woundes' cure," 
When you were tried with sword and fire and wrack, 
Where Love is wingless found, and Faith is sure, 
I slept and entered in "the blissful place 
Yet kept unhurt the bird within your breast, 
And men and maidens look in God His face. 
Or do you sometimes wish the old time back,