Felicia Hemans in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Volume 33 1833/The Memorial of Mary

by Felicia Hemans

For other versions of this work, see Female Characters of Scripture. XII. The Memorial of Mary.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 33, Page 805

XII.

THE MEMORIAL OF MARY.

Thou hast thy record in the Monarch's ball;
    And on the waters of the far mid sea;
And where the mighty mountain-shadows fall,
    The Alpine hamlet keeps a thought of thee:
    Where'er, beneath some Oriental tree,
The Christian traveller rests,—where'er the child
    Looks upward from the English mother's knee,
With earnest eyes in wondering reverence mild,
There art thou known;—where'er the Book of Light
Bears hope and healing, there, beyond all blight,
    Is borne thy memory, and all praise above:
Oh! say what deed so lifted thy sweet name,
Mary! to that pure silent place of Fame?
    One lowly offering of exceeding Love.