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Verbi vere substantivi
A Sequence for S. John the Evangelist, first printed by Gautier (vol. ii., p. 241:) it is here also first translated for this second edition.
That substantive Word, united
To the flesh, and therein plighted
To a life of misery sore;
Him to be the co-eternal,
John's theology supernal
Testifieth evermore.
On his Master's bosom lying
Quaffed he thence that fount undying,
Wisdom's stream, his thirst to sate:
Then became, with touch endearing,
Faith to word, to teaching hearing,
Mind to God, conterminate.
