A Poem for Our Blessed Mother
THE SCHOLAR’S SEARCH
Xavier Donald MacLeod, Our Lady of Litanies, 1861. pgs. 167-9.
“WHAT is wisdom?” asked the Scholar,
“What its nature? Where its source?
Whence derived this mighty force
Of our yearning to attain it ?”
Weary days and silent midnights
Saw his piercing eye explore
All the wealth of written lore,
Saved from the decay of ages.
And he dug the fields […]
