Alleluia Height And the resounding harpers of the vine, Lone winter holds upon the Height Her court in full renown.
Obedient her courtiers go, Their gonfalons aloft and bright, And scatter pearls of snow;Her sturdy knighthood wear for crown Prismatic sheen in young delight, And wave the cedar oriflamme on high;While windward heralds cry, Across the battlements of earth To parapets along the sky, The lauds of character's full worth.
The winter passes and the days come in Vibrant with spring.
And men find welcome at the Easter tomb, Reward they win, Who make their hearts with courage sing Through Lenten opportunity of gloom:
(Not as the Pharisees, With faces lacrimose, Who wear pretence of ashen woes, And murmur like the tuneless bees, Whose honies are hypocrisies), But men of character's delight, Who like this valiant Height Still serving through the bleakest day, With humble offerings of sound and sight, Do steadfast stand and pray:
O, count those souls of noble worth, And God's good pleasure on His earth, Who still, if joy or pain Brings sun or rain, Heroic sing The law of Alleluia to the King.
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