[314] Published by Boucherie, “Mélanges Latins, etc.,” Revue des langues romanes, t. vii. (1875), p. 35.
“Alleluia! O flock, proclaim joy; with melodious praise utter deeds divine now fixed by revealed doctrine. Through the great sacrifice of Christ thou art liberated from death; the gates of hell destroyed, opened are heaven’s doors. Now He rules all things celestial and terrestrial by eternal power; wherein by the Father’s authority He gives judgment always just.”
[315] See Gautier, Poésie liturgique, p. 147 sqq. It came somewhat earlier in Italy. See Ronca, Cultura medioevale, etc., p. 348 sqq. (Rome, 1892).
[316] While Sequences may be called hymns, all hymns are not Sequences. For the hymn is the general term designating a verbal composition sung in praise of God or His saints. A Sequence then would be a hymn having a peculiar history and a certain place in the Liturgy.
[317] Contained in Migne 178, col. 1771 sqq. They have not been properly edited or even fully published.
[318] Reference should also be made to the six laments (planctus) composed by Abaelard (Migne 178, col. 1817-1823). They are powerful elegies, and exhibit a richness and variety of poetic measures. It may be mentioned that the pure two-syllable rhyme is found in hymns ascribed to Saint Bernard.
[319] Leon Gautier, the editor of the Œuvres poétiques d’Adam de Saint-Victor, in his third edition of 1894, has thrown out from among Adam’s poems our first and third examples. On Adam see ante, Chapter XXIX., II.
[320] Gautier, Œuvres poétiques d’Adam de Saint-Victor, i. 174.
[321] Gautier, o.c. 3rd edition, p. 87.
[322] Gautier, o.c. 1st edition, i. 201.