“Blessed is the womb”

Who are blessed.

(The Gospel History, Section 94)

And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the breasts which thou didst suck. But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

“Blessed is the womb”

(The Saviour of the World, Vol VI Book III Poem XXXVII)

A woman in the crowd lifts up her eyes
And looking on the Lord beholds Him good:
She thought of her who still’d His infant cries,
And gave him from her breast His proper food;
Half-envious, half-adoring, she lifts voice,
“O thou that bar’st and suckledst Him, rejoice!”

The Lord this tender mother-soul regards,
And fain would give her a yet dearer bliss
Than hers she envied so; “There be rewards
Sweeter, good mother, than an infant’s kiss;
The Word of God, that Word I speak to thee,
Fulfils that soul, hears in sincerity:

“Come, drink, as thou wert infant at the breast,
The Word, shall nourish thee and make thee grow;
Come, as an infant, drink; none shall molest
The soul that knows from whom its blessings flow:
Rest from thy labours, be as babe once more;
Thy God knows well to nourish and restore!”

St. Luke xi. 27, 28.

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