Felix, qui potuit tantae post nubila noctis,
O dignum tanta nocte, videre diem:
Felix ille oculus, felix utrinque putandus,
Quod videt, et primum quod videt ille Deum.
The man born blind.
Happy the man who was endu'd with sight,
And saw a day well worth so long a night:
Happy the eye, twice happy is the eye,
That sees, and at first look, a Deity. B.
ANOTHER VERSION.
Thrice-happy eye, that after such dark night—
Day worthy night so dark—couldst see the light:
O happy eye, eye thrice and four times blest,
At once to ope, and upon God to rest. A.
CXLVII.
Et ridebant illum. Matt. ix. 24.
Luctibus in tantis, Christum ridere vacabat?
Vanior iste fuit risus, an iste dolor?
Luctibus in tantis hic vester risus inepti,
Credite mi, meruit maximus esse dolor.
And they laughed at Him.
Laughter at Christ the Saviour—
Laughter 'mid falling tears!
O, which show'd greater folly,
Vain laughter or vain fears?
Such laughter 'mid such sorrow,
O fools, ye may believe:
Such laughter in such Presence
Gave greatest cause to grieve. G.