e of the
heavenly city of which Christ, the 'living stone, elect and precious,'
is the foundation. Cf. 1 Peter 2. 3-6. 29. Thou without shore (i.e.
unbounded in extent), thou without time (i.e. never ceasing to flow),
fountain that art soon a stream. 34.
Beneath thy contemplation
Sink heart and voice oppressed.
--Neale.
49. Plaude...Deus:
Exult, O dust and ashes!
The Lord shall be thy part.
--Neale.
HILDEBERT.
1057-1184 A.D.
THE HEAVENLY CITY.
Hildebert, a contemporary and fellow-countryman of the Bernards, became
Archbishop of Tours in 1125. His verses number more than ten thousand.
The selection is taken from his _Address to the Three Persons of the
Holy Trinity_.
Cf. Revelation 21 and 22.
3. Auctor lucis: Genesis 1. 3. 5. lapis vivua: 1 Peter 2. 4, 6. 6. Rex
festivus: Matthew 22. 2. 12-14. Revelation 21. 4; 1 John 3. 2. 15-18.
Cf. O civitas sancta, civitas speciosa, de longinquo te saluto, ad te
clamo, te require.--Augustine, _De Spiritu et Anima_. 26. Revelation 21.
24.
The following is a portion of Neale's translation (_Mediaeval Hymns_,
pp. 35-36):
Mine be Sion's habitation,
Sion, David's calm foundation:
Built by him, light's source immortal,--
To whose streets the cross is portal:
In this city, uninvaded
Peace,--spring endless, light unfaded:
Endless breath of flowerets vernal,
Festal melody eternal.
Home, no change nor loss that fearest,
From afar my soul thou cheerest:
Thee it seeketh, thee requireth,
Thee affecteth, thee desireth.
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