Blowing Sand (verse)
Dalton, Power
210 THE COMMONWEAL June 30, 1926 They are: Mr. H. de Fries, professor in the Univer- in Central and...
...tarian Affairs has a tendency to become, within They seize small moments, these ephemeral things, these limits, a species of council in which delegates of And lift beyond the reach of mighty wings...
...Ward, Spinning their songs of rose breath and new snow with a Swiss, Mr...
...Father Martindale, of the University of Oxford...
...two assistants and the necessary Father Schmidt, the renowned German anthropologist...
...Dupraz, as secretary...
...a treasgate from Spain to the International Bureau of Labor...
...Gariel, professor at the University of Fri- the president, three vice-presidents belonging to differbourg and vice-director of the International Bureaus ent nations, but as much as possible residing in of Industrial and Literary Property in Berne...
...The Com- One watching this cloud pass-this brave sound lullmission is for the present conducting an investigation, Could surely find no thing more wonderful ! which touches especially on the condition of Catholics POWER DALTON...
...the means of of the clergy of Geneva, secretary...
...urer, Mr...
...Dupraz...
...youngest of the three, has barely started its labors Dear Columbine is there, and gay Pierrot, under the presidency of an Englishman, Mr...
...The ob- Marking how grain calls out to whirling grain, ject of this commission is, therefore, to represent these Pitting their frailty to the hurricane, interests before the League, or to act in such a manner How from the dust they mold the throaty flute, And, lest a string be raucous, the sweet mute . . . that they may be represented, and to keep the prin- Striving for stature, how they build and build cipal Catholic associations, devoting their efforts to Temples for life-these who will soon be stilled ! these various problems, duly informed of the activi- Ah God, they know-and yet, God, hear them laugh...
...Verband of Germany, the International Union of the Shod in white flame, they skim the dark abyssLeagues of Catholic Women, the International Union And oh, their eyes hold heaven when they kiss...
...The Commission of Humani- They race with time, with wheel and multigraph...
...one delegate for each group, and of one representaGaston Castella, professor of this same university...
...meet...
...tive for each commission, in an advisory capacity only...
...the Abbe Charles Comte, in Turkey...
...It consists of the Bureau of the Union, of the Catholic University of Fribourg, in Switzerland...
...the League and of the International Bureau of Labor, and to maintain contact with the different Catholic organizations occupied with humanitarian questions...
...They sow for future strangers, their bright stage The International Commission of Minorities, the Holds treasure gleaned from dust of a dead age...
...and G. de Reynold, professor at the Uni- Geneva, and of Fribourg, one of its founders, who versity of Berne and member of the International always places his episcopal residence at the disposal Commission for Intellectual Cooperation...
...Count Rostworowski, rector of the University in The Bureau itself has its headquarters in Fribourg, Cracow...
...210 THE COMMONWEAL June 30, 1926 They are: Mr...
...Abbe Switzerland, assisted by the members of the secrePrince Ghika ; Pedro Sangro y Ros de Olano, dele- tary's office...
...personnel...
...It is under- The work, the play, the legends are a fount, stood that it deals exclusively with the religious as- Whose jewels are too manifold to count...
...a secretary, the Abbe Grenmad...
...O. de Halecki, professor of the University where the office of the secretary of the Union is situof Warsaw, head of the division of university rela- ated in a room in the library building of the Canton tions in the International Institute of Intellectual Co- and of the University...
...Father de Munnynck, rector of mittee...
...The work done there may that helped the Union to create, in 1924, its Catholic be said, humbly, to possess apostolic significance, inCommission of Humanitarian Affairs...
...of Charity Work, and of various other associations These who must bow at last to wind and rain, Raise proud undaunted brows to lashing pain...
...Mon- Finally, the Union itself has as protector His Highsignor Beaupin, vice-rector of the Catholic Institute of ness Monsignor Marius Besson, Bishop of Lausanne, Paris...
...the International Catholic Association for the Pro- Two, by some alchemy of eye and eye, tection of Young Girls, the Katholischer Caritas- Go far beyond the footpath of the sky...
...Father Gemelli, rector of the Catholic The Union is governed by an International ComUniversity of Milan...
...Blowing Sand In effect, when the League of Nations intervenes to One striding from a moon to a far sun, suppress slavery or the abuse of narcotics, to curb Passing the planets as they swiftly run, white slavery, or to protect children, it touches Catho- Looking upon a gust of blowing sand, lic interests which are of the greatest importance but A little cloud less wide than a great hand, which are not always represented before it...
...of Louvain...
...ties of the League...
...Monsignor De- supporting the intellectual elite of these Catholic ploige, senator of the Kingdom of Belgium and direc- minorities, and a number of other outstanding probtor of the Institute of Philosophy of the University lems...
...H. de Fries, professor in the Univer- in Central and Eastern Europe, in Soviet Russia and sity of Nimegue, president...
...The task of asmuch as it strives to teach all the world the hope the second is to follow the humanitarian activity of of unity and mutual understanding...
...The Bureau is composed of operation...
...of our small and large assemblies, in which he himIt was also the activity of the League of Nations self takes earnest part...
...It expects to study also...
...pects of the problem of the minorities...
Vol. 4 • June 1926 • No. 8
