Irish Jesuit Province

To an Irish MotherAuthor(s): Michael EarlsSource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 38, No. 439 (Jan., 1910), p. 20Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20502738 .

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TO AN IRISH MOTHER

0, LISTEN, Irish Mother, In Ireland far away,

Wherever in that holy land You kneel to-night and pray

0, will you, dear, on bended knee With blessing words remember me

To help my priesthood day ?

For now the road grows shorter, The years are only three,

Before the day of blessedness Shall bring its joy to me.

With ready heart to learn and pray I hasten on and up the way

The altar lights I see.

So when the little children Are near you with the beads,

0, whisper them a stranger's name And tell them of my needs;

For sure I know their childish prayer Will win our Mother Mary's care

To where my pathway leads.

God grant some day to Ireland My lot will be to go,

And bless you from a Soggarth's heart With gratitude aglow;

And all your prayers that now are mine I thank in Mass at Mary's shrine

God grant us this be so.

MICHAEL EARLS, S.J.

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