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Patris Sapientia, Bonitas Divina.
This is one, and the best, of the many efforts of mediæval poets to recite our Lord's Passion in connexion with the Canonical Hours. It may probably be of the twelfth century.
Circled by His enemies,
By His own forsaken,
Christ the Lord at Matin hour
For our sakes was taken:
Very Wisdom, Very Light,
Monarch long expected,
In the garden by the Jews
Bound, reviled, rejected.
See them at the Hour of Prime
Unto Pilate leading
Him 'gainst whom with lying tongues
