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THE PILGRIMAGE (OF SEVEN AND SEVENTY SISTERS), by                    
First Line: Over the silver-ribboned highway
Last Line: Truly serves the lord.
Subject(s): Crusades; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Pioneers; Sisters


Over the silver-ribboned highway
Flooded with bright sunlight,
They came on the Padre's byway
To "The Valley of Hearts Delight."

In the fields wild flowers abound,
Far as the eye can behold,
Are prune blooms like thistledown
And acacias dripping gold.

In spring when hearts are merry,
(It has been so through the ages),
Like the good folk of Canterbury
People long for pilgrimages.

No genial inn keeper's now needed
The irksome trek to interpret
Since modern science succeeded
In providing a magic carpet.

More endowed than ladies of fable
These sisters of purpose and zeal
Now, the hand that rocks the cradle
May hold the steering wheel.

In love they answer the call
Of the needy, the lonely, and sick,
"The strength of the brick is the wall,
The strength of the wall is the brick."

Service is the aim of these women,
Daughters of noble pioneers,
They new laurels are winning,
Developing new frontiers.

Mellowed by age and hallowed by love
In a garden stands a shrine
Where once a youth inspired from above
Conceived immortal rhyme.

These crusader hearts beat faster
As they trod the sacred soil
Of this shrine wherein the Master
Had written of them that toil.

The trouveres our prophets are
As history writes the pages,
The singers are guiding stars
That lead on through the ages.

Hail Markham! Above any other
Humanity's poet and bard --
For he who loves his brother
Truly serves the Lord.





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