Who humbled from the seats of light
Their Lord, all human woes to prove,
Led the great Source of day to night,
And made of God a man?
'Twas love!

Yes! love has wrought, and love alone,
The victories all,--beneath, above:
And heaven and earth shall shout as one,
The all-triumphant song
Of love.

The song through all heaven's arches ran,
And told the wondrous tales aloud,
The trembling fire that looked so wan,
The weeping sun behind the cloud,
A God, a God become a man!
A mortal man become a God.

--_Violante Do Ceo._




CHAPTER IX.

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