"'Ora pro nobis, Mater!'-what a spell
Was in those notes, with day's last glory dying
On the flush'd waters-seemed they not to swell
From the far dust, wherein my sires were lying
With crucifix and sword?-Oh! yet how clear
Comes their reproachful sweetness to my ear!
'Ora'-with all the purple waves replying,
All my youth's visi