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THE GOSPEL SONGS.[1]
I.
BENDICTUS.
Can priestly lips, long silenced, raise
A strain so lofty and so strong,
Making our matin hymn of praise
As jubilant as evensong?
Yes: not the lips alone, the eyes
Of Zacharias were unsealed,
To see and sing the mysteries
To love and penitence revealed
- ↑ See Note F, page 78
