“O blood of Mary’s son,”
to
“O blood of God’s dear son.”
Just one-half the hymn to “Jesus Risen” is thrown out, from verses 2 to 6 inclusively. These verses treat of the sacred humanity. “The Apparition of Jesus to Our Blessed Lady,” “The Ascension,” and “Pentecost,” which immediately follow, are among those struck out, as are also the first eight verses of “The Descent of the Holy Ghost.” The reason of course is that they eulogize the Mother of God. For the same reason verses 13 and 14 are omitted. Indeed this hymn alone must have caused the pious soul of the editor much trouble; for we find
in his fourth verse (the twelfth in the original) the lines:
“One moment—and the Spirit hung
O’er them with dread desire”;
“O’er her with dread desire”
is the original. Again in his sixth verse, which in the original reads:
“Those tongues still speak within the Church,