FLYING BIRDS
On the Feast of Our Lady's Assumption
In a compact body, keeping perfect rhythm,
above the smoking factory chimney's crest,
regardless even of the beauty of the green fields,
waving trees, and joyous, shouting children,
the birds circle the heavens in their morning flight.
So, surely, must the Angels have borne aloft
Our Lady on that first Assumption Day!
Intent on the beauty of Him on whom they desire to look,
they ignore the things of earth and gaze on her
whom clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet,
they bear to joyful reunion with her Son -
with Him who is also her God.
Sister M Denis OP
Tablet. 19 August 1961
From 'A Silence full of bells'
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