"Sursum corda," says Stevenson, Lift up your hearts Art and Blue Heaven April and God's Larks Green reeds and sky scattering river A Stately Music Enter God.

227-246, 469-484; VI, 393-462 NIGHT-THOUGHTS (1742-45), NIGHT I, ll. 68-90; III, 325-342; IV, 201-233; VII, 253-323 ANONYMOUS THE HAPPY SAVAGE (1732) SOAME JENYNS AN ESSAY ON VIRTUE (1734), ll. 148-165, 170-183, 189-199 PHILIP DODDRIDGE SURSUM (1735?) WILLIAM SOMERVILLE THE CHASE (1735), BOOK II, ll.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE SURSUM Ye golden lamps of heaven, farewell, With all your feeble light; Farewell, thou ever-changing moon, Pale empress of the night.

hallelujah, allelujah!^, hosanna!, glory be to God!, O Lord!, pray God that!, God grant, God bless, God save, God forbid!, sursum corda [Lat.].

5. calls it; "cold joints, indigestion, they cannot endure their own fulsome belchings, continual wind about their hypochondries, heat and griping in their bowels, praecordia sursum convelluntur, midriff and bowels are pulled up, the veins about their eyes look red, and swell from vapours and wind."

Tragelapho similes vel centauris, sursum homines, deorsum equi.

Cum tacito delirio ac dolore alicujus partis internae, dorsi, hypochondrii, cordis regionem et universam mammam interdum occupantis, &c. Cutis aliquando squalida, aspera, rugosa, praecipue cubitis, genibus, et digitorum articulis, praecordia ingenti saepe torrore aestuant et pulsant, cumque vapor excitatus sursum evolat, cor palpitat aut premitur, animus deficit, &c. 2653.

An a terra sursum rapiuntur a solo iterumque cum pluviis praecipitantur? &c. 3076.

Delectatus lusis catulorum, porcellorum, ut perdices inter se pugnarent, aut ut aves parvulae sursum et deorsum volitarent, his maxime delectatus, ut solitu dines publicas sublevaret. 3283.

Instat in matrice, quod sursum et deorsum ad odoris sensum praecipitatur.

1. Si morosa, si non in omnibus obsequaris, omnia impacata in aedibus, omnia sursum misceri videas, multae tempestates, &c. Lib.

He hath writ us a few lines with a coal, ending with "Sursum corda, dear children!

In rendering colloquial phrases into the lapidary style of ancient Rome, I confess it is often hard to improve on the brevity of the vernacular, though the admonition "to keep your end up" can be condensed from four words to two in "sursum cauda."

Mary Immaculate Bodenstedt (A); 13Jun66; R388505. Sursum corda, a Latin prayer book for children.

Mary Immaculate Bodenstedt (A); 13Jun66; R388505. Sursum corda, a Latin prayer book for children.