The Oxford Book of Christian VerseDavid Cecil Lord David Cecil, well known for his writings, and particularly for his brilliant lives of the poet Cowper and of the young Lord Melbourne, has set out in this anthology to make a full and representative collection of English religious verse. |
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... Children an heep , y - comen of Cristen blood , That lerned in that scole yeer by yere Swich maner doctrine as men used ... child , his litel book lerninge , As he sat in the scole at his prymer , He Alma redemptoris herde singe , As ...
... Children an heep , y - comen of Cristen blood , That lerned in that scole yeer by yere Swich maner doctrine as men used ... child , his litel book lerninge , As he sat in the scole at his prymer , He Alma redemptoris herde singe , As ...
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... child , whan spreynd was holy water , And song ' O Alma redemptoris mater ! ' This abbot , which that was an holy man As monkes been , or elles oghten be , This yonge child to conjure he bigan , And seyde , ' o dere child , I halse thee ...
... child , whan spreynd was holy water , And song ' O Alma redemptoris mater ! ' This abbot , which that was an holy man As monkes been , or elles oghten be , This yonge child to conjure he bigan , And seyde , ' o dere child , I halse thee ...
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... child from the Mother's embrace , an Idea spacious as the starry firmament's inescapable infinity of radiant gaze ... child to teach his first Apostles and to accuse their pride , saying , Unless ye shall receive it as a child , ye ...
... child from the Mother's embrace , an Idea spacious as the starry firmament's inescapable infinity of radiant gaze ... child to teach his first Apostles and to accuse their pride , saying , Unless ye shall receive it as a child , ye ...
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