Patiendo fit homo melior,
Auro pulchrior,
Vitro clarior,
Laude dignior,
Gradu altior,
A vitiis purgatior,
Virtutibus perfectior,
Iesu Christo acceptior,
Sanctis quoque similior,
Hostibus suis fortior,
Amicis amabilior. —Thomas à Kempis

THE FAVORITE PRAYER OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS[7]

O Domine Deus!
Speravi in te;
O care mi Iesu!
Nunc libera me:
In dura catena
In misera poena
Desidero te;
Languendo, gemendo,
Et genuflectendo
Adoro, imploro,
Ut liberes me! TRANSLATION My Lord and my God! I have trusted in Thee;
O Jesus, my Savior belov'd, set me free:
In rigorous chains, in piteous pains,
I am longing for Thee!
In weakness appealing, in agony kneeling,
I pray, I beseech Thee, O Lord, set me free!

[ULTIMA THULE]

American pride has often gloried in Seneca's "Vision of the West" written more than 1800 years ago.

Venient annis Saecula seris, quibus Oceanus
Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens
Pateat tellus, Tethysque novos
Detegat orbes, nec sit terris
Ultima Thule. —Seneca TRANSLATION A time will come in future ages far
When Ocean will his circling bounds unbar,
And, opening vaster to the Pilot's hand,
New worlds shall rise, where mightier kingdoms are,
Nor Thule longer be the utmost land.

[THE ROMAN OF OLD]

Oh, the Roman was a rogue,
He erat, was, you bettum; He ran his automobilis
And smoked his cigarettum; He wore a diamond studibus
And elegant cravatum, A maxima cum laude shirt
And such a stylish hattum. He loved the luscious hic-haec-hoc,
And bet on games and equi: At times he won: at others, though,
He got it in the nequi. He winked (quousque tandem?)
At puellas on the Forum, And sometimes even made
Those goo-goo oculorum! He frequently was seen
At combats gladiatorial, And ate enough to feed
Ten boarders at Memorial: He often went on sprees,
And said on starting homus, "Hic labor, opus est,
Oh, where's my hic-haec-domus?" Although he lived in Rome—
Of all the arts the middle— He was (excuse the phrase)
A horrid individ'l; Ah, what a different thing
Was the homo (dative homini) Of far away B. C.
From us of Anno Domini! —Harvard Lampoon

[ICH BIN DEIN]