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MANUELITA
THE STORY OF SAN XAVIER DEL BAC
By
MARIAN CALVERT WILSON
AUTHOR OF "RENEE" AND "GUY ORMSBY"
| Of a Sabbath morn, or some hallowed day, |
| When prayers are made and masses are said, |
| Some for the living, and some for the dead, |
| Well might the traveller start to see |
| The tall, dark forms, that take their way |
| From their simple homes, on the river shore, |
| And the forest paths, to that chapel door; |
| And marvel to mark the naked knees |
| And the dusky foreheads bending there, |
| While in coarse, white vesture, over these |
| In blessing or in prayer, |
| Stretching abroad his thin, pale hands, |
| Like a shrouded ghost, the Jesuit stands." |
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Copyright, 1891, by United States Book Company, All Rights Reserved
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