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Heri mundus exultavit.
A Sequence for S. Stephen's Day: according to some, Adam's masterpiece. It was not in my first edition.
Yesterday, with exultation
Join'd the world in celebration
Of her promis'd Saviour's birth;
Yesterday the Angel nation
Pour'd the strains of jubilation
O'er the Monarch born on earth.
But to-day, o'er death victorious,
By his faith and actions glorious,
By his miracles renown'd,
Dared the Deacon Protomartyr
Earthly life for Heav'n to barter,
Faithful midst the faithless found.
