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MEDIÆVAL HYMNS.
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    stanzas. 2. Because the transition from one part to the other is so unusually abrupt. 3. Because, at the end of the sixth stanza, there is a quasi-doxology as if to point out that the hymn originally concluded there.

    There is, in the Paris Breviary, a rifacimento of this Hymn; very inferior, it is true, to the original, but much superior to the Roman reform. The first verse may serve as an example.

    Original:
    Urbs beata, Jerusalem,
    Dicta pacis visio,
    Quæ construitur in cœlo
    Vivis ex lapidibus,
    Et angelis coronata
    Ut sponsata comite.

    Roman:
    Cœlestis urbs Jerusalem
    Beata pacis visio,
    Quæ celsa de viventibus
    Saxis ad astra tolleris;
    Sponsæque ritu cingeris
    Mille Aogelorum millibus.

    Paris:
    Urbs beata, vera pacis
    Visio, Jerusalem;
    Quanta surgit; celsa saxis
    Conditur viventibus:
    Quæ polivit, hæc coaptat
    Sedibus suis Deus.