Poems (Scudder)/Saint Nereid

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SAINT NEREID
An ancient legend of the Church doth tell  Of how a hermit living in the wood  Baptized a Satyr that the monster should Receive a soul, thereby the twain did dwell A many years within their forest cell  Till both were reverenced as saints. I would  There were another story of such good And blessing that upon a mermaid fell. Saint Nereid—to wear a halo dim  Of silver wavy-patterned, robes of pale   Azure and violet and beryl-green, To wait, a handmaid, moony-haired and slim,  In service of the one whom seamen hail   As "Stella Maris," ocean's holy Queen.
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