THE WEEPING-WILLOW.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 3, 14 May 1897, Page 29

THE WEEPING- WILL O W.

When our Lord was to be scourged the soldiers fastened Him to a pillar, and then went in search of switches wherewith to scourge Him, as they had been ordered. A willow-tree was growing in the yard, and its long, lithe branches seemed so suited to their purposes that they took a number of them and used them for the cruel flagellation. The men themselves felt no pity, but plied the rods mercilessly upon the naked shoulders of our Saviour, until His Precious Blood spurted forth and trickled down His sacred Body in streams. When the tree saw the use to which its Rlender branches had been put, it no longer held them proudly upright as before, but drooped low and actually shed tears ; whence it has ever since been known as the weeping- willow. It is regarded by all nations as an emblem of mourning, and is commonly found in cemeteries, drooping gracefully over the graves of the departed. — Arc Maria.

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