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O beata beatorum.
This very elegant sequence is of German origin. Its rhymes are irregular in the original, as here. It was inserted in the Hymnal Noted.
Blessed Feasts of Blessed Martyrs!
Saintly days of saintly men!
With affection's recollections
Greet we your return again.
Mighty deeds they wrought, and wonders,
While a frame of flesh they bore:
We with meetest praise, and sweetest,
Honour them for evermore.
Faith unblenching, Hope unquenching,
Well-lov'd Lord, and single heart,—
Thus they glorious and victorious
Bore the Martyr's happy part.
