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Zyma vetus expurgetur.
Another Easter Sequence of Adam of S. Victor.
Purge we out the ancient leaven,
That the feast of earth and Heaven,
We may celebrate aright:
On to-day our hope stands founded:
Moses teacheth how unbounded
Is its virtue and its might.
This day Egypt's treasure spoiled
And the Hebrews freed that toiled,
Pressed with bondage and in chains:
From the mortar, brick, and stubble
Heaviest toil and sorest trouble
Had they known in Zoan's plains.
