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Updated: May 7, 2025
Agnes, who had been sitting abstractedly on the parapet, with her head drooped over the lily-spray, now seemed to collect herself.
Elise seated herself by her, and at the request of the other children, "Mother, sing the song of the Dove oh, the song of the Dove!" she sang, with a pleasant low voice, that little song which she herself had made for her children: There sitteth a dove so white and fair, All on the lily-spray, And she listeneth how, to Jesus Christ, The little children pray.
At last, seeming to collect her thoughts, she folded the paper and replaced it in its sparkling casket, and, unlocking the door of the shrine, laid the gem with its inclosure beneath the lily-spray, as another offering to the Madonna. "Dear Mother," she said, "if indeed it be so, may he rise from loving me to loving thee and thy dear Son, who is Lord of all! Amen!"
The dove on the lily-spray sent sleep also to them; and after the mother had pressed her lips to their cheeks, had spoken with Brigitta about the new comer, and had received from the child-loving, good-natured old woman, the most satisfactory promises, she hastened back to her husband. He listened with curiosity to what she had to relate of Sara.
He seemed to move from the shadow of the orange-trees with a backward floating of his lustrous garments, as if borne on a cloud just along the surface of the ground; and in his hand he held the lily-spray, all radiant with a silvery, living light, just as the monk had suggested to her a divine flower might be.
Then, children, lift up a pious prayer, It hears whatever you say, That heavenly dove, so white and fair, That sits on the lily-spray. During this song, the dove of peace descended on the soul of the child.
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