Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)

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1. Sonnet Sequence on the Shepherds at the Crib (continued)

   

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   IX. her beauty is not a worldly beauty.
   the pure and immaculate virgin possessed above all other maidens this peculiar mark of virtue that her glammes[?] purified the heart of all who looked on her. -St Thomas of Villanova
   Nature would seem to have on her conferr’d her [?] gifts. She must be far more fair than [?] other, Judith, or Rebecca was; and yet her beauty, if we have not err’d one could not with propriety compare with any type of beauty, that one knows. Her face and form reflect the eternal: she’s not like the sun or what men call beauty - so proud and dangerous to look upon: but like the morning star, so musical. So soft and bright, inspiring purity, with thoughts of heaven that now the night is gone- the harbinger of day: - that day may be which prophets longed to see, and did not see.

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   Béarla

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   Handwritten

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   Roman script

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   • Timothy Hurley