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Father Ryan's Poems (21)
2023-12-06"A Night Prayer" Dark! Dark! Dark! The sun is set; the day is dead: Thy Feast has fled; My eyes are wet with tears unshed; I bow my head; Wh...
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Father Ryan's Poems (20)
2023-12-06The Prayer of the South My brow is bent beneath a heavy rod! My face is wan and white with many woes! But I will lift my poor chained hands to God, An...
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Father Ryan's Poems (19)
2023-12-06Memories They come, as the breeze comes over the foam, Waking the waves that are sinking to sleep —— The fairest of memories from far-away...
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Father Ryan's Poems (18)
2023-12-06A Land without Ruins "A land without ruins is a land without memories ——a land without memories is a land without history. A land tha...
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Father Ryan's Poems (17)
2023-12-06At Last Into a temple vast and dim, Solemn and vast and dim, Just when the last sweet Vesper Hymn Was floating far away, With eyes that tabernacled te...
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Father Ryan's Poems (16)
2023-12-06A Memory Adown the valley dripped a stream, White lilies drooped on either side; Our hearts, in spite of us, will dream In such a place at eventide. B...
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Father Ryan's Poems (15)
2023-12-06Reunited Purer than thy own white snow, Nobler than thy mountains' height; Deeper than the ocean's flow, Stronger than thy own proud might; O ...
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Father Ryan's Poems (14)
2023-12-06March of the Deathless Dead Gather the sacred dust Of the warriors tried and true, Who bore the flag of a Nation's trust And fell in a cause, thou...
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Father Ryan's Poems (13)
2023-12-06A Thought The summer rose the sun has flushed With crimson glory may be sweet; 'Tis sweeter when its leaves are crushed Beneath the wind's and...
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Father Ryan's Poems (12)
2023-12-06"Out of the Depths" Lost! Lost! Lost! The cry went up from a sea —— The waves were wild with an awful wrath, Not a light shone d...