Irish Jesuit Province

To Sister Mary BenignusAuthor(s): John FitzpatrickSource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 18, No. 210 (Dec., 1890), p. 659Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20498131 .

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To Sistei, lary Benignus. 659

when questioned later on the subject in the House of Commons, gave a different explanation on the same authority. Mr. D. Crilly, M.P., just before the House broke up for the summer vacation, asked Mr. Matthews if his attention had been called to the statement of the Governor of Chatham Prison, describing

THE IRISH MONTHLY as being of a very advanced Fenian type, although in an existence of eighteen years it had never propounded any political views of even the mildest kind. This time the Home Secretary laid the blame on the punctuation, which ought, it seems, to have confined this charge to the last of the two

magazines. We are not sure that our transatlantic contemporary will be content to be thus characterised ; but our own concern is to say that this second explanation is more lame than the first, and that it would have been more credible and more creditable if Captain Vernon Harris could have condescended to confess his mistake and to apologise for it. But how could so high an official

be expected to plead guilty to the crime of having passed a rash judgment on THE IRISH MONTHLY?

TO SISTER MARY BENIGNUS.

(Written for -the Children at the Convent, Goldenbridge, Dublin, for the Feast of

St. Benignus, Novemnber 9th, 1890).

JY Nanny's stream, as once St. Patrick slept, A fair child gathered, till his arms were wide,

The fragrant flowers, and to the sleeper's side

On tiptoe stealing, where the willows kept Cool shadows, in love's tender ways adept,

Strewed o'er his bosom all the meadow's pride The dreamer dreamt the angel of the tide

Kissed him, as onward with the wave he swept.

It was the boy Benignus. He, for us And all our country's children, offering

That flowery tribute to a saintly fame,

Made us till now his debtors: therefore, thus,

To pay that olden debt, these flowers we bring To thee, the heiress of his gentle name.

JOHN FITZPATRICK, O.M.I.

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