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Laudes Crucis attollamus.
This Sequence, for the Invention or Exaltation of the Cross, is perhaps the masterpiece of Adam of S. Victor.
Be the Cross our theme and story,
We who in the Cross's glory
Shall exult for evermore.
By the Cross the warrior rises,
By the Cross the foe despises,
Till he gains the heavenly shore.
Sweetest praises
Earth upraises:
Accents sweetest
Are the meetest
For the Trees of sweetest cheer:
Life and voice keep well in chorus;
Then the melody sonorous[1]
Shall make concord true and clear.
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