Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-03-08

And an oscm,uts pdcis,
myth TO the masses,
Who trusted their faith more to mali ana
cuirasses-
All borne by the throng
Who are marching along
To the square of the Dom with professional
song,
And the flaming of dips,
And the bending of hips,
And the chanting of hundred perfunctory lips,
And some good little boys
Who had come up from Seuss
And the QaiTsnuskirche To show on their
voice
All march TO the square
OF the great Dom, and there
File right and LETT, leaving alone and quite
bare
covered sedan,
Containtng-sO ran
The rumor-the victim to take off the banl
They have left it alone.
They have sprinsled each stone
OF the porch with sanctified eau de Cologne,
Guaranteed in this case
To remove every trace
OF q sulphurous presence in that sacred
Two Carmelites stand
On the right and left hand
of the covered sedan chair. to wait the com
OF the prelate to throw
Up the cover and show
The form of the victim in terror below.
There's pause, and prayer,
1Htu inc oiShaAi
Stands romar-by all that is good and is
fair!
A womani and known
To them all; ne must own
Too tceu kno,on to the many of to-day to be
shown
As martyr. or cen
As "A Christian. 4 queen
OF pleasaunce and revel, of glitter and sheen
So bad that the worst
OF Cologne spake up first,
And declared twas an outrage TO suffer one
And already a fef
OF the Satanic chief,
To martyr herself for the Churchs relief.
But in vain fell the sneer
On the rest, who, fear,
Entire nous, felt a strong inclination to cheer
woman and there
She stands in the glare
OF, the pitiless sun and their pitiless stare
a woman still young,
With garments that chung
To a figure, though wasted with passion, and
wrung
With remorse and despair,
Yet still passing fair;
With jewels and gold in her dark shining
hair,
And cheeks that were faint
Meath her dyes and her paint
woman most surely, but scarcely saint
She moves. She has gone
From their pity and scorn;
She has mounted alone
The first step of stone,
And the broad swinging doors she wide open
has thrown;
Then pauSes, and turns
As the altar blaze burns
On her cheeks. and with one sudden gesture
Archbishop and prior,
Knight, lady, and friar,
And her voice rings out clear from the vault
of the choir:
90 men of Colognei
What trds We have known;
What am. as | stand here. One knoweth
alone.
| % II it be but His will, H @
i shall pass from Him still,
Lost. curst, and degraded Ireckon no i'll
Ii still by that sign
OF his anger divine
One soul shall be spared; He hath blessed
. more than mine.
o men OF Cologne!
Stand forth If We own >
A faith like to this, or more lit to atone.
And take We my place,
And God give you grace al
To stand and confront Him, like me. face to
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pr i She paused. But aloof
They all stand 4 No reproof
Breaks the silence that fills the celestial roof.
One instant-no more o.
She halts at the door; ..f
Then enters!......A flood from the roof to
-e Ffiis the church rosy red.
She is gone,
But instead,
Who Is this bending forward with glorified
head, a
And hand stretched to saver
Sure this is no slave
OF the powers OF Evil in awful conclave.
They press to the door.
But too latei All is DER,
Naught remains but a woinan's form prone
on the floor.
But they still see u trace
OF that glow on her face
That they saw in the light of the affairs high
blaze,
On the image that stands,
With the Babe in its hands,
Enshrfned in the churches of all Christian
lands.