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So she rode in her pride And sootten child; or she dived into the canal

locks and supported a boy as seized with cra infant froinatively, of course

But in the end there returned the poignant yearning fro fro blue and tender upon its hill, then her

heart surged with far-off words: "Oh, Jerusaleathered thy children together as a hen gathereth her chickens

under her wings, and ye would not--"

The passion rose in her for Christ, for the gathering under

the wings of security and warmth But how did it apply to the

weekday world? What could it mean, but that Christ should clasp

her to his breast, as a mother clasps her child? And oh, for

Christ, for him who could hold her to his breast and lose her

there Oh, for the breast of e

and bliss for ever! All her senses quivered with passionate

yearning

Vaguely she knew that Christelse: that in

the vision-world He spoke of Jerusale that did not

exist in the everyday world It was not houses and factories He

would hold in His bosom: nor householders nor factory-workers

nor poor people: but so that had no part in the weekday

world, nor seen nor touched eekday hands and eyes

Yet she must have it in weekday terms--she must

For all her life was a weekday life, now, this was the whole So