The Latin Hymn-writers and Their Hymns

by Samuel Willoughby Duffield

O dear and best of sounds,

Heard in the rest of sounds,

Hymned by the lowly!”

Or thus, less closely and more according to the spirit of the poem:

“Peace doth abide in thee;

None hath denied to thee

Fruitage undying.

Thou hast no weariness;

Naught of uncheeriness

Moves thee to sighing.