I, vita, i, perdam: mihi mors tua, Christe, reperta est:
Mors tua vita mea est; mors tibi vita mea.
Aut ego te abscondam Christi, mea vita, sepulchro:
Non adeo procul est tertius ille dies.
Whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it.
Away, my life! Lord Christ, I have Thy death:
My life's Thy death, and Thy death gives me breath.
But come, my life, I'll hide thee in His tomb:
The third day hence is not so long to come. A.
VII.
Primo mane venit ad sepulchrum Magdalena. Joan. xx. 1.
Tu matutinos praevertis, sancta, rubores,
Magdala; sed jam tum Sol tuus ortus erat.[45]
Jamque vetus merito vanos sol non agit ortus,
Et tanti radios non putat esse suos.
Quippe aliquo, reor, ille novus jam nictat in astro,
Et se nocturna parvus habet facula.
Quam velit ô tantae vel nuntius esse diei,
Atque novus Soli Lucifer ire novo!
[Mary] Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, cometh unto the sepulchre.
Thou holy Magdalene,
Ere rosy morn was seen,
Awokest; but e'en then
Thy Sun was in thy ken.
Now the great olden sun,
Rising as wont upon
The earth, is wilderèd
With new beams round him shed.