[Footnote C: This very ancient hymn is the fountainhead from which through various languages have trickled the various hymns of the Celestial City, such as "Jerusalem, my happy home!"

A hymn is the rhythmic aspiration of the race.

Luther's hymn, so far from lightening the journey, would become an intolerable burden.

As the hymns which accompany the Judgment Scene are fine examples of a high class of devotional compositions, a few translations from some of them are here given.

A hymn is a singing angel, and goes walking through the earth, scattering the devils before it.

The hymn of victory of the Greek Church, "To the protecting Conductress," in honor of the most holy Virgin, has remained a memorial of this triumph, and even now concludes the Office for the First Hour in the daily Matins; for that was, indeed, the first hour of salvation to the land of Russia.

And now our hymn of deliverance will become a song of oppression for other men...." Clerambault could not answer, he had a real love for this young man, one of those who sacrificed themselves for the war, knowing well that they had nothing to gain; and the greater their sacrifices, the stronger their faith.

"Now, do you not understand what I mean when I say that the hymns of Prudentius are an anticipation of the form of the English ballad?...

To me the hymns were funeral dirges; and the mumbled prayers, faintly audible, were in behalf of every sufferer in the world but one.

That glorious hymn, Veni Creator Spiritus, is really an appeal to genius.

The hymn which she first committed to memory was one of her chief favourites: "A mind at perfect peace with God.

Often he was inconsistent: his Hymn to Nature is in part a pantheistic rhapsody, in part a monotheistic Hebrew psalm.

"'Prayer,' says the old hymn, 'is the soul's sincere desire.'

The Ambrosian hymns remained the type of all the hymnic poetry of succeeding centuries.

I enclose, and want you, when by yourself, to sing for my sake a little hymn that I am sure is the language of your heart.

Consequently, instead of beginning the service by reading the usual verses, he said, "I would like the congregation to sing a hymn"; and the hymn that he chose was "God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."

The hymns and anthems she composed were not only the admiration of that convent, but also of several others to whom they were shown, and she was spoke of as a prodigy of wit and devotion.

Her hymns, which are very numerous, no less than seventy being in common use, have been the means not only of arresting the undecided and helping the saint, but of consoling the suffering and the doubting.

His dearest attribute is still to bless, And man's most welcome hymn is grateful cheerfulness.

The hymn is an answer to the invitation given to us in the invitatory, to praise God and to rejoice with Him.

His best-known hymn, Lead kindly Light, remains a favorite with all Christian denominations.

The second hymn, Tu Rex gloriae Christi, etc., is a prayer to Christ, the God Incarnate, the Redeemer now in Glory, to aid His servants and to aid them to be of the number of His saints in everlasting glory.

The four hymns in praise of Love and Beauty, Heavenly Love and Heavenly Beauty, are also stately and noble poems, but by reason of their abstractness and the Platonic mysticism which they express, are less generally pleasing than the others mentioned.

Your proposed "Hymns" will be a fit preparatory study wherewith "to discipline your young novitiate soul."

The hymn to Proserpine and Dolores are wonderful lyrical versions of Mdlle. de Maupin.