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By Eleanor C. Donnelly

Close to the Sacred Heart, it nestles fair—

A marble poem; an aesthetic dream

Of sculptured beauty, fit to be the theme

Of angel fancies; a Madonna-prayer

Uttered in stone. Round columns light as air,

And fretted cornice, Sharon’s Rose is wreathed—

The passion-flower, the thorn-girt lily rare,

The palm, the wheat, the grapes in vine-leaves sheathed.

Tenderly bright, from mullioned windows glow

Our Lady’s chaplet-mysteries. Behold,

Her maiden statue in that shrine of snow,

Looks upward to the skies of blue and gold;

Content that in the crypt, beneath her shining feet,

The holy ones repose in dreamless slumber sweet.