  Illustrious shepherd of the Prince of Peace, With priestly zeal you watched thy Belgian fold, Any aye performed its duties manifold, That love and virtue did therein increase, And want and sorrow all the while surcease, While Christian culture her rich page enrolled Heroic men and women chaste to mould; The cross, thy sceptre, and the crook, thy creese: But when the robber Hun assailed thy flock, Then stood you forth, the patriot and priest, With clarion call to champion the right, And met the onset of the Prussian beast And all the hosts of his embattled might, Firm and immovable, as Zion’s Rock. |
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