XXVI. DE PASSIONE DOMINI. ECQUIS binas columbinas Alas dabit animæ ? Ut in almam crucis palmam Evolet citissime, In quâ Jesus totus læsus, Et immensus est suspensus, Factus improperium ! Oh cor, scande; Jesu, pande Caritatis viscera, Et profunde me reconde Intra sacra vulnera; In supernâ me cavernâ Colloca maceriæ; Hic viventi, quiescenti Finis est miseriæ ! 10 15 XXVI. [Walraff,] Corolla Hymnorum, p. 16; Daniel, Thes. Hymnol. vol. ii. p. 345.-Of this graceful little poem, which, to judge from internal evidence, is of no great antiquity, I am not able to give any satisfactory account. I have only met it twice, as noted above, and in neither case with any indication of its source or age. It is certainly of a very rare perfection in its kind. 8. improperium]=convicium, derisio, and probably connected with probrum, is a word peculiar to Church Latin. It occurs several times in the Vulgate, as Rom. xv. 3; Heb. xi. 26. The verb improperare (=ỏveidíšei) is used by Petronius. 13, 14. caverna...maceria] He alludes to Cant. ii. 14 (Vulg.): Columba mea in foraminibus petræ, in cavernâ maceria: on which words St Bernard writes (In Cant. Serm. 61): Foramina petræ, vulnera Christi. In his passer invenit sibi domum et turtur nidum, ubi reponat pullos suos: in his se columba tutatur, et circumvolitantem intuetur accipitrem. FORTUNATUS. XXVII. DE RESURRECTIONE DOMINI. SALVE, festa dies, toto venerabilis ævo, Quâ Deus infernum vicit, et astra tenet. 5 10 XXVII. Creuzer, Symbolik, vol. iv. p. 742; Daniel, Thes. Hymnol. vol. i. p. 170. XXVIII. Clichtoveus, Elucidat. Eccles. p. 168; Daniel, Thes. Hymnol. vol. ii. p. 68; Gautier, Adam de S. Victor, vol. i. p. 82. -The thought of the coincidence of the natural and spiritual spring, the falling in of the world's Easter and the Church's, and of the arapxal of both, which is the underlying thought of this and the last poem, comes beautifully out in a noble Easter Sermon by Gregory of Nazianzum, in which he exclaims: Nûv čap κοσμικὸν, ἔαρ πνευματικόν· ἔαρ ψυχαῖς, ἔαρ σώμασιν· ἔαρ δρώμενον, ἔαρ ἀόρατον. 15 20 Cœlum fit serenius, Quia ver intepuit. Gelu mortis solvitur, Vita mortem superat; Amovendo gladium. 23. tollitur] Some MSS. read fallitur. 34. versatilem] Cf. Gen. iii. 24 (Vulg.). |