The Latin Hymn-writers and Their Hymns

by Samuel Willoughby Duffield

As it was due of yore;

And thus the Father’s only Son

And Spirit we adore,

To whom be glory, power, and praise

Through ages evermore.

To these Dr. A. R. Thompson permits us to add, as a specimen of the later hymns of the Latin Church, his translation of

CUR RELINQUIS, DEUS, COELUM.

O God, why didst thou put aside

For this vile earth thy heaven above?

Didst thou expect there would betide