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Quam dilecta tabernacula.
A prose of Adam of S. Victor, for the dedication of a church.
How lovely and how loved, how full of grace,
The Lord the God of Hosts, His dwelling-place!
How elect your
Architecture!
How serene your walls remain:
Never moved by,
Rather proved by
Wind, and storm, and surge, and rain!
O how glorious those foundations
Which in ancient generations
Types and shadows half display!
From the side of Adam sleeping
Eve[1] proceeded, figure keeping
Of a hand to last for aye.
