This is one (Ad pedes) of seven poems addressed to the separate members of Christ on the Cross; not certainly by Bernard. The poem has been used for purposes of private devotion rather than of public worship.

Metre: ten verse stanza, trochaic dimeter and iambic dimeter rhyming. 1. "All the world's salvation hail." 8. mundum, nudum, Mone. 15. meo

rum is a better reading than tuorum; cf. 17.

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Ad faciem. Metr. tr. in Episc. H. 102; N. Laud. D., 408; In Exc. 256, 257; Meth. H. 222; Bapt. P. B. 354.

3. Isaias liii 5 ipse autem vulneratus est. 19. intersigno, medieval Latin for "proof." 23. Iudic. xiv 8 ecce examen in ore leonis erat et favus mellis. 46. Cic. De Legg. ii 48 qui e vita emigravit; migro is common.

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Homo miser, cogita:
Mors omnes compescit,
Quis est ab initio
Qui morti non cessit?
Quando moriturus est,
Omnis homo nescit,
Hic, qui vivit hodie,

Cras forte putrescit.

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Dum de morte cogito,
Contristor et ploro,
Verum est, quod moriar
Et tempus ignoro.
Ultimum, quod nescio
Cui iungar choro;
Et cum sanctis merear
Iungi, Deum oro!

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This song on the Vanity of the World is interesting as a link between the religious poetry of the Middle Ages and the boisterous student songs in the same metre (trochaic dimeter), many of which may be found in the Carmina Burana and in Gaudeamus.

8. Nahum i 10 consumentur quasi stipula.

HILDEBERTUS TURONENSIS

Hildebert was Bishop of Le Mans in 1097, Archbishop of Tours in 1125 ; died 1134. He was a prolific writer of Latin verse, most of which is of little value. This hymn is a selection from the address to the Holy Spirit in his poem on the Trinity. It has been translated by Thomas Crashaw and by Dr. Neale.

Aut quae gemma muros pin- In plateis huius urbis,
gat,
Sociatus piis turbis,
Quis chalcedon, quis iacin- Cum Moyse et Elia,
thus,

Norunt illi qui sunt intus.
Crochaic

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Pium cantem Alleluia.
Amen.

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Metre: iambic dimeter, rhyming in pairs. 6. S. Matt. xxii 2 simile...regnum coelorum homini regi qui fecit nuptias. 7. Apoc. xxi 23 et civitas non eget sole neque luna ut luceant in ea: nam claritas Dei illuminavit eam. 16. S. Matt. xvi 18 tu es Petrus et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam. 19. Cf. the Heavenly Country hymn, p. 49, line 56; such hymns have much in common.

ADAM DE S. VICTORE

Adam was educated at Paris and became a monk of the abbey of St. Victor, where he spent his life, dying between 1172-1192. He was the most prolific of medieval hymn writers, one hundred and six of his compositions being known. His work shows remarkable erudition in mystical interpretation of Scripture, and his versification is smooth and pleasing; he developed the sequence into its final and perfect form.

An Easter hymn on the Easter of nature and that of the church. Metre: seven-line stanza of trochaic dimeter catalectic, with rhyme. 7. sollemnia, festival. 9. Nature is released; earlier in these hymns the imagery has been of warm climates. 15. The Christian form of Lucr. I 10-20. 23. S. Ioann. xiv 30 venit enim princeps mundi huius et in me non habet quidquam. 34. Gen. iii 24 et collocavit ante paradisum voluptatis Cherubim et flammeum gladium atque versatilem. Cherubim was sometimes used as an indeclinable singular, as in English.

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