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MEDIÆVAL HYMNS.
This its votaries still secureth,
Victory evermore assureth,
Weakness and diseases cureth,
Triumphs o'er the powers of hell:
Satan's captives liberateth,
Life in sinners renovateth,
All in glory reinstateth
Who by ancient Adam fell.
Tree, triumphal might possessing,
Earth's salvation, crown, and blessing,
Every other prætergressing
Both in bloom and bud and flower:
Medicine of the Christian spirit,
Save the just, give sinners merit,
Who dost might for deeds inherit
Overpassing human power. Amen.
M. Gautier has printed translations of the fifteenth century of some fifty of Adam's Sequences. As a specimen I give the 6th, 7th, and 8th stanzas of the above.
Ce n'est pas nouvel sacrament:
Tel religion nouvelement
