Readings from Latin Verse; With Notes

by Curtis C. Bushnell

HILDEBERT.

1057-1184 A.D.

THE HEAVENLY CITY.

Hildebert, a contemporary and fellow-countryman of the Bernards, became
Archbishop of Tours in 1125. His verses number more than ten thousand.

The selection is taken from his Address to the Three Persons of the
Holy Trinity.

Cf. Revelation 21 and 22.

3. Auctor lucis: Genesis 1. 3. 5. lapis vivua: 1 Peter 2. 4, 6. 6. Rex festivus: Matthew 22. 2. 12-14. Revelation 21. 4; 1 John 3. 2. 15-18. Cf. O civitas sancta, civitas speciosa, de longinquo te saluto, ad te clamo, te require.—Augustine, De Spiritu et Anima. 26. Revelation 21. 24.

The following is a portion of Neale's translation (Mediaeval Hymns, pp. 35-36):

Mine be Sion's habitation,
Sion, David's calm foundation:
Built by him, light's source immortal,—
To whose streets the cross is portal:
In this city, uninvaded
Peace,—spring endless, light unfaded:
Endless breath of flowerets vernal,
Festal melody eternal.
Home, no change nor loss that fearest,
From afar my soul thou cheerest:
Thee it seeketh, thee requireth,
Thee affecteth, thee desireth.

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These are fifty-eight in number and extend from the earliest period down
to Imperial and Late Latin.

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