She sat beside David, dreamily telling her beads, and glancing from time to time at her Missal.
With signings, and genuflexions, and symbolic kisses, the chorus in their sexless vestments sang the amœbæan pre-Thespian drama—verses strung together from David and Isaiah that hinted at a plot, but did not even tell a story ... till suddenly in the Sequentia an actor broke loose from the chorus, and tragedy was born:
Victimæ Paschali laudes immolent Christiani. Agnus redemit oves: Christus innocens Patri reconciliavit peccatores. Mors et vita duello conflixere mirando: dux vitæ; mortuus regnat vivus.
Die nobis, Maria
Quid vidisti in via?
Sepulcrum Christi viventis
Et gloriam vidi resurgentis
Angelicos testes
Sudarium et vestes.
Surrexit Christus spes mea: