Bone frater, quicquid agas, Crucifixe, fac me fortem, 40 45 L BONAVENTURA. XXIV. DE PASSIONE DOMINI. UANTUM hamum caritas tibi præsentavit, Mori cum pro homine te solicitavit ; Te quidem aculeus hami non latebat, Ergo pro me misero, quem tu dilexisti, Heu cur beneficia Christi passionis Suo quippe corpore languidum te pavit, Ut sic innotesceret quantum te amavit. 5 10 15 20 XXIV. Bonaventure Opp. vol. vi. p. 424; Corner, Prompt. Devot. p. 117. Oh! quam dulce balneum, esca quam suävis, Est ei quem reficis nullus labor gravis, Cor ignavi siquidem minime perpendit Ad quid Christus optimum suum cor ostendit, Quod reclinatorii vices hoc prætendit. Hoc reclinatorium quoties monstratur 25 Sicut et accipiter totus inescatur Super carnem rubeam, per quam revocatur. 30 XXV. Clichtoveus, Elucidat. Eccles. Paris, 1556 (not in the earlier editions).—Balde has a series of brief poems on the several instruments of the passion. This on the thorn-crown : 13-18. There appeared a very good translation of some of Primum fuit spinea, Postmodum fit aurea Tactu sancti verticis. Spinarum aculeos De malis colligitur, Sed in aurum vertitur, Jesu pie, Jesu bone, Mores nostros sic compone, Ut perpetuæ coronæ Mereamur gloriam. 20 25 30 35 these stanzas in Fraser's Magazine, May, 1849, p. 530. This stanza was rendered thus: Helm on soldier's forehead shining, 'Twas of thorns; but now, behold, Touched by that blest head. |