Excerpt from Votarial Verse Arabesques

An altar-cross, perchance, a mystic censer A Chalice fair, calixiate, prepart Of that set sacramental once helped to give The highest service immemorially Accredited by use imperative And sanctioned primordially. We see the Vine entwined - acanthus Greek Well reconciled with all urbanity, Symbolic of the blend of thought antique With spiritual Christianity. The Vine, triumphant, holds the higher place Whereas the bear's foot graces but the base.

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