Now, O dear Jesu, set me, set me free!
In chains, in pains, long have I wished for Thee;
Faint, and with groans, I, bowing on my knee,
Adore, implore Thee, Lord, to set me free.'"
I may add, that the Latin lines have recently been very beautifully set to music by that eminent composer, Mrs. Kingston.
W. G. M.
Your correspondent on the subject of the lines said to have been repeated by Mary Queen of Scots on the scaffold, furnishes a translation of them in lieu of others, which he condemns; and his version has provoked me to try my hand at one, in which I have studied rhythm more than rhyme: the rhythm and the intensity of the ordinal.
"Great God, I have trusted
In peril on Thee!
Dear Jesus, Redeemer,