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Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu (Classic Reprint)
Father Damien An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu - Classic Reprint Author:Robert Louis Stevenson Excerpt from Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu — No golden dome shines over Damien's sleep: — A leper's grave upon a leprous strand, — Where hope is dead, and hand must shrink from hand, — Where cataracts wail toward a moaning deep, — And frowning purple cliffs in mercy keep — All wholesome life at distance, hath Go... more »d planned
For him who led the saint's heroic band,
And died a shepherd of Christ's exiled sheep.
O'er Damien's dust the broad skies bend for dome
Stars burn for golden letters, and the sea
Shall roll perpetual anthem round his rest:
For Damien made the charne-house life's home,
Matched love with death, Damien's name shall be
A glorious benediction, world-possest.
H. D. Rawnsley.
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