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 forceOf our yearning to attain it ?" Weary days and silent midnightsSaw his piercing eye exploreAll the wealth of written lore,Saved from the decay of ages. And he dug the fields of science,Seized, rejected theories;And for all his toil at these,Gained and lost self-satisfaction. Up amid the circling [...]