flaming june painting

flaming june painting
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
girl with a pearl earring vermeer
Gustav Klimt Kiss painting
The most impressed of them said: ¡¡¡¡`Be you really going to christen him, Tess?' ¡¡¡¡The girl-mother replied in a grave affirmative. ¡¡¡¡`What's his name going to be?' ¡¡¡¡She had not thought of that, but a name suggested by a phrase in the book of Genesis came into her head as she proceeded with the baptismal service, and now she pronounced it: ¡¡¡¡`SORROW, I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.' ¡¡¡¡She sprinkled the water, and there was silence. ¡¡¡¡`Say "Amen", children.' ¡¡¡¡The tiny voices piped in obedient response `Amen!' ¡¡¡¡Tess went on: ¡¡¡¡`We receive this child - and so forth--'and do sign him with the sign of the Cross.' Here she dipped her hand into the basin, and fervently drew an immense cross upon the baby with her forefinger, continuing with the customary sentences as to his manfully fighting against sin, the world, and the devil, and being a faithful soldier and servant unto his life's end. She duly went on with the Lord's Prayer, the children lisping it after her in a thin gnatlike wail, till, at the conclusion, raising their voices to clerk's pitch, they again piped into the silence, `Amen!'