MEDIÆVAL HYMNS.
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'Tis the Name for adoration,
'Tis the Name of victory;
'Tis the Name for meditation
In the vale of misery:
'Tis the Name for veneration
By the Citizens on high.
'Tis the Name that whoso preaches
Finds it music in his ear:
'Tis the Name that whoso teaches
Finds more sweet than honey's cheer:
Who its perfect wisdom reaches
Makes his ghostly vision clear.
'Tis the Name by right exalted
Over every other Name:
That when we are sore assaulted
Puts our enemies to shame:
Strength to them that else had halted,
Eyes to blind, and feet to lame.
Jesu, we Thy Name adoring
Long to see Thee as Thou art:
Of Thy clemency imploring
So to write it in our heart,
That, hereafter, upward soaring,
We with Angels may have part. Amen.
