Auge piis iustitiam,
Reisque dona veniam.
8. Hail thou cross, O hail thou only
Hope that agony may win;
To believers bring salvation,
Take the sinner from his sin!
The 8th stanza is a later addition. Stanza 2 omitted.
Tr. Howard M. Jones (Allen, P. S., The Romanesque Lyric. Chapel Hill, Un. of N. C. Press, 1928, p. 146-7. Quoted by permission of publishers.)
III. Aeterna Christi munera
1. Aeterna Christi munera
Et martyrum victorias,