Whilst for a sign too eagerly thou dost call,
Except by sign thou canst not ask at all.

LXVIII.

In aquam baptismi Dominici. Matt. iii. 13-16.

Felix ô, sacros cui sic licet ire per artus;

Felix, dum lavat hune, ipsa lavatur aqua.

CL.

Gutta quidem sacros quaecunque perambulat artus, Dum manet hic, gemma est; dum calit hine, lacryma.

On the water of our Lord's baptisme.

Each blest drop on each blest limme

Staying a gem, thence falling was a tear.

B.

LXIX.

Mulieri incurvatae medetur Dominus, indignante Archisynagogo.

Luc. xiii. 11.

In proprios replicata sinus quae repserat, et jam

Daemonis, infelix, nil nisi nodus erat, Solvitur ad digitum Domini: sed strictior illo Unicus est nodus; cor, Pharisaee, tuum.

VOL. II.

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5. file In as we ? Inn ní

Ni se dejinian Uknow de terre Templ
Non credes quod in Fine de Des!
At 'I te humans de pernice degjes : leta zie
Non credes yood in Fin De Im!

If Thon be the Son of God can Trype? éves,
Cast Thyself from the pizace wherein
I set Thee, or I think Thee not Goda Son
No; but Hel cast the from the beare of me
Satan.

Wt not believe Het Goft Sun then! A

Dominus fens ad Judarse. Loe, 41Discite, vos miseri, venientes discite fammas; Nec facite & lacrymas sic periisse meas. Nec periisse tamen poterant: mihi credie, vestras Vel reprimet flammas hast ayna, vel faciet

The Lord weeping over the Jews.

Think on the coming flames I would prevent;
Let not My tears for you in vain be spent.
And yet they can't be spent in vain; for sure
This water flames will quench, or else procure.

B.

Que Quis toe brie? que nox est ista dici?
Nox nova, quam ninii luminis ubra facit.

An Silas fuerit cazens, vix difere poss

Hoe scio, god captus lumine Saulus erat.1

On Saul bladed with too much light.

What darken'd noon is here? what mid-day night?

It is the shadow east by too much light.

Saul may be blind or not; all I can say,

Ta'en within Heaven's light earth's light fades away.

Barksdale thus renders the latter couplet:

That Saul was blind, I will not say:
Sure Saul was captus lumine.

R. WI.

LXXVI.

Beati oculi qui vident. Luc. x. 23.

Cum Christus nostris ibat mitissimus oris,
Atque novum caecos jussit habere diem,
Felices, oculos qui tunc habuere, vocantur?
Felices, et qui non habuere, voco.

Blessed are the eyes which see.

When Christ with us on Earth did sympathize,
And to the poor blind men restor❜d their eyes,
Happy they who had eyes. Not they alone;
I call them also happy who had none.

ANOTHER VERSION.

When Christ on earth moved on His pitying way,
And bade the blind look up and find new day,
Was eyesight then such bliss to every one?
Yet I will deem them happy who had none.

B.

G.

LXXVII.

Filius e feretro matri redditur. Luc. vii, 15.
Ergone tam subita potuit vice flebilis horror
In natalitia candidus ire toga?

Quos vidi, matris gemitus hos esse dolentis
Credideram; gemitus parturientis erant.

Her son is delivered to his mother from the bier. With such quick change could tear-bedew'd Dismay Give birthday smiles, and walk in white array?