The Pope.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 49, 5 December 1901, Page 1

The Pope.

The cable man is putting the Pope to death again. He been doing this so frequently for many years past that we have become at last as accustomed, in the dull season, to the announcement of Leo's passing as to the paragraphs about the ' record clip,' and the biggest potato, and the catalogue of boating and shooting accidents that mark the Christmas holidays. His faithful children all over the world wish the Pope years of usefulness for God and Mother Church. But his time for laying down life's burden cannot, :in the natural course of things, be very long delayed ; for the still strong and virile mind of the Grand Old Man of the Vatican is set in the frail tenement of an infim body that hab been through the rough grind and wear and tear of 91 years. The thirteenth Leo has reached far into Such calm old ape aa conscience pure And self-commanding hearts insure ; Waiting their summons to the «ky. Content to Jive, but not afraid to die, and when God's good hour comes he can sing his Nunc di?nittis — Life's race well run, Life* work well done, Life's victory won, Now comes rest.