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Then I'll take More heed to this wand'ring soul of mine, if it's only for Thy sake." Yes, we are all of worth to God, but we must needs go to the Cross to learn how great is our worth; and, as we bow in its sacred shadow, may we learn to say: "For Thy sake, O Christ, for Thy sake, I'll take more heed to this wandering soul of mine." "O man, strange composite of heaven and earth!
"Oh heaven! that there were but a mote in yours, A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wand'ring hair, Any annoyance in that precious sense! Then, feeling what small things are boist'rous there, Your vile intent must needs seem horrible." What ought to be done in a case of choking?
Then she would get me to relate the story of Anna or of some other poor unfortunate. Alas! their name is "Legion." Words and Music by Mrs. Florence Roberts A poor girl was wand'ring alone on the street Of a great busy city, thro' dust and thro' heat, With despair in her heart as she walked to and fro, When she heard a sweet voice singing softly and low: CHORUS
He shed a few more scalding tears, waved his hand in resignation, bowed his head, caught sight of his own feet, regarded them with surprise. "Whose?" he inquired naively. "Yours," said Berkley reassuringly. "They don't want to go to bed." "Put 'em to bed!" said Cortlandt in a stem voice. "No business wand'ring 'round here this time of night!"
In this happy unconsciousness that there are any peculiarities requiring explanation, knowing nothing of the strange paths which the planets are seen to follow on the heavenly vault, Their wand'ring course now high, now low, then hid, Progressive, retrograde, or standing still, he placidly puts forward and presently very vehemently urges a theory which accounts for none of these things.
But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. Having sufficiently contemplated the view, we began to think of returning to the valley, which presented a most enlivening appearance after the chaos we had left.
Instead of that, me frantick love detains, 'Mid foes, and dreadful darts, and bloody plains: While you and can my soul the tale believe, Far from your country, lonely wand'ring leave Me, me your lover, barbarous fugitive! Seek the rough Alps where snows eternal shine, And joyless borders of the frozen Rhine. Ah! may no cold e'er blast my dearest maid, Nor pointed ice thy tender feet invade.
And let us live in joy 'Wolves, 'Wolves' Heads' and Wand'ring men! Vagres that we are! Let us live in summer under the green foliage, and in winter in caverns warm! "Death unto oppressors! Freedom to the slave! Let us take from the seigneurs! Let us give unto the poor! "What! A hundred kegs of wine in the master's cellar, and only the water of the stream for the wornout slave? "What!
The Vagres of Ronan are ever faithful to the sacred commandments of the Vagrery: "Let us take from the rich and give to the poor. The Vagre who preserves a sou for the morrow ceases to be a Vagre, a 'Wolf's-head, a 'wand'ring man. He ever divides the booty of the previous evening among the poor, so that he be compelled to pillage fresh renegade bishops, and Frankish oppressors of old Gaul.
"What is the reason of such emotion?" "A family remembrance if a Vagre, a 'Wand'ring Man, a 'Wolf, a 'Wolf's-Head' can be at all said to have a family " "And what is that family remembrance?" "The sweet Hena, to whom the chant refers, was one of my ancestresses." "How do you know that?"
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