On her THE berth day HYMN OF HILDEBERT, AND OTHER MEDIEVAL HYMNS WITH TRANSLATIONS BY ERASTUS C. BENEDICT A NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION NEW YORK ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH & CO. 1868 Gift of A. C. Whate 1932. JUN 191902 (903) Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the BRADSTREET PRESS. PREFACE. THESE translations have been the agreeable labor of occasional hours of leisure. Several of them have at different times, during the last fifteen years, appeared in public journals, literary and religious, and the favorable mention made of some of them has induced me to collect those which have been published, and to add some others, including the Hymn of Hildebert to the Trinity. Of some of them, previous translations are numerous and excellent. In making this selection, my aim has been to bring together such a variety of hymns and topics as should, in small compass, exhibit the evangelical faith and character of those eminent and devout men, whose light shone so purely in that period of Christianity which we call the Middle Ages; their ideas of God and his attributes, of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; their knowledge of the Scriptures; their exhaustive treatment of their topics, and their modes of thought and expression, so |