ANDREW GRATTAN
'Thus, the Holy Trinity and Vocatio,
In divine cooperation, are to begin, a Newmanian, new man formation,
Of the logos of the Logos, to comfort Carthage's Augustine, Nursia's
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Benedict, Dominic's Aquinas, Carrara's Michelangelo, and Littlemore's
Newman, that greatness, can still contend, in today's fallowest of periods'.
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'The Christ Colloquy' Book V Mary Canto III: 85-89, Grattan.
Our Lady, in conversation with the flower girl of Heaven, in Paradise.
When I behold you in my hand,
Or taste you in the cup,
Your angels do about me stand,
And I am gathered up;
Translated whole to Calvary,
To see, three spikes in ground descending,
And in their midst, upon one Tree,
The Son of God ascending;
Christ, like sail, upon a ship, fast
Bolted to its mast, and vibrant, in His chest
Transfixed, a parchment host of vellum;
And upon it there, upon my look,
There seemed an ancient script, and closed
Eye of the Evangelist, opened, to transcribe it.
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'On The Origin of St. John's Gospel', The Occasional Sonnets, Grattan.