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MEDIÆVAL HYMNS.
That the Love which for my sake
Bare such tribulation
In mine own Death-agony
May be my Salvation.
- ↑ It Is not to be wondered at that the above hymn should have received many applications to S. Mary. For example, one begins:
Mary, Mother of the poor,
And their hope unshaken,
Heard about the matin hour
That her Son was taken;
By the Apostolic band >
Utterly forsaken, &c.More worthy of quotation are the following verses of Hildebert's on the same subject: the rudeness of the translation imitates that of the original:
In twice twelve hours the sun goes through the heaven:
And sacred to the Lord of all are seven.
The first is Prime. In this the Sun was placed
On high, and Heaven with all his splendour graced;
In this we praise our King, the world's True Light,
And pray Him to defend from error's night.
Adam at Tierce was made: and given the aw:
Tierce the Redeemer's condemnation saw
