If every child is wanted, Why was I left to die?If every man is born free, Why wasn’t I freely born? And yet I see my mother, In a dark and dreary room,Sitting by a window gazing out On children playing in the street And when she weeps to think of me I wipe her […]

Who hath used what I have used?Whose will they be when I am gone?In the opera of this World,I live, I die, a passing song. What others have owned, now do I own;What I do own will from me pass;And I will fade, and pass away—A fleeting shadow of the past. Such is life, such […]

When e’er I look upon the sky,Or gaze upon the azure seaBeauty may I in these descry—Beauty reflected all from thee.Of beauties all, more beauteous farFor beauty do they from thee reflectAs light is from an aery tarnPerched atop a mountains crest.When thou doth leave, their beauty fadesIts source being gone, its signs make hasteTo […]

There was a night long agoIn which a babe was born,And laid into a manger bareA stable with the beasts to share,And as he lay there, weak and frail–A helpless child seemed he. There shone a star in that skyAs radiant as the Sun,A sentinel, an angel bright,Which stood on high to guard that nightA […]

“Why sit ye still, and sigh and mourn?”Say the young unto the old“Life is more than filth and dirt,Love is long and life is short,What time have we to mourn our hurtBeneath the giddy sky?” “Yes love is long.” The old reply“We know too well that life is short;The loved will die, then pain and […]

I danced with him when I was young,He took my hand and led me out.And still we dance through night and dayForward and back, in and out. But though I try, I sometimes failAnd lag behind, and trip and fall–And then he reaches out to me,Picks me up and we dance on. And continue we […]

Hey, look what I found in my yard

Hey out there, this is my first post.In this blog I intend to explore a variety of topics from a Thomistic viewpoint*Cut Due to Advisory*