The Life Thou gavejt us Thou didjl dejire
And ali was ready for us : Lo ! the knife








382 2D z parente &ummo natutm

And cloven wood were waiting ; bound or free
Wc too were ready ! In the battle Jlrife,

Or by thc lonely Altar unto Thcc
Wc oifered lovc for Lovc, and lifc for Life.
And as wc camc to Thcc a Jound of war
Ran aftcr us from dijlant fields ; thcjar
Of Jhicld and Jword and battle bow ; a cry
Confujed and harjh, that rollcd to i Vifiory *
And Jeemed upon thc darkening heavens to ceajc
For as wc neared Thy City moraing broke.
And all along its lofty ramparts wokc
One word of greeting, flooding all thc car
And all thc heart with Jolemn mujic, clcar
As of a Trumpct talking with us — Peace !



SDe parente femnuno natum*

A Sequence for tbe Feaft of tbe Transfigurat ion.
F thc Highejl generated,

And not by His Sire created,

From before all time thc Word
One God with thc Father reigned,
By thc Right to Him pertained,

And by Gift of none conferred.
Guilty man from death redeeming,

God thc Word in outward Jeeming
Was an humblc Servant made ;










SDe parente fe>umma natum* 383

Thus becoming a new Creature,

He rejtored our human nature,

Nor ajlde His Godhead laid.
In Himjelf, both Weak and Worthy
He united ; but the Earthy
Clad, not crippled, the v Divine :

Neither did the Jlrong Superior
Swailow up the frail Inferior,

But by Juffering made it Jhine,

Each in its own Nature Jingle,

Not as wines with water mingle
Were they in debajement linked ;

But that mojt myjlerious Union
Which had placed them in communion,
Kept them perfeSly diJlinS.
