Thou spak'st the word—Thy word's a law;
Thou spak'st, and straight the blind man saw.
To speak and make the blind to see,
Was never man, Lord, spake like Thee.
To speak thus was to speak, say I,
Not to his eare, but to his eye. Cr.
XLVIII.
Onus meum leve est. Matt. xi. 30.
Esse levis quicunque voles, onus accipe Christi:
Ala tuis humeris, non onus, illud erit.
Christi onus an quaeris quam sit grave? scilicet audi,
Tam grave, ut ad summos te premat usque polos.
My burden is light.
Askest how thou may'st lightly loaded be?
Christ's burden take from me:
A wing to lift, no load to press thee down,
Thou it wilt feel and own.
Dost ask how heavy may Christ's burden be?
Then list, O man, to me:
So heavy, that whoe'er 'neath it enrolls,
It lifts to the highest poles. G.
XLIX.
Miraculum quinque panum. Joan. vi. 1-13.
Ecce, vagi venit unda cibi; venit indole sacra
Fortis, et in dentes fertilis innumeros.
Quando erat invictae tam sancta licentia coenae?
Illa famem populi poscit, et illa fidem.
On the miracle of loaves.