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After Seeing Pius IX

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I saw his face to-day; he looks a chief      Who fears not human rage, nor human guile;     Upon his cheeks the twilight of a grief,      But in that grief the starlight of a smile.     Deep, gentle eyes, with drooping lids that tell     They are the homes where tears of sorrow dwell;     A low voice -- strangely sweet -- whose very tone     Tells how these lips speak oft with God alone.     I kissed his hand, I fain would kiss his feet;     "No, no," he said; and then, in accents sweet,     His blessing fell upon my bended head.     He bade me rise; a few more words he said,     Then took me by the hand -- the while he smiled --     And, going, whispered: "Pray for me, my child."

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