Verses on Various Occasions - John Henry Newman (best beach reads txt) 📗

while on Mount Alvernus, keeping a fast of forty days in honor of St. Michael, a seraph appeared and marked the hands, feet, and right side of St. Francis with the five wounds of Our Lord’s Passion. ↩

A movement associated by English readers with the hymn particularly:

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“Dreed,” from the old English verb “dreogan,” to suffer. ↩

Note the solemn and pathetic rhythm effect. ↩

“Take me away, and in the lowest deep
There let me be,” etc.

The catalexis⁠—pause⁠—is finely used here:

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This appeal is paraphrased by the author from the Psalms. The words at the end are translated from the Lesser Doxology: “Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio et nunc, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.” The Greater Doxology begins: “Gloria in excelsis Deo.” “Doxology” is from two Greek words meaning “praise” and a “discourse.” ↩

“Softly and gently, dearly-ransomed soul,
In my most loving arms I now enfold thee,” etc.

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In Dante’s Vision of Purgatory (Canto I) hell is spoken of as a “cruel sea,” and the water surrounding the Island of Purgatory as the “better waves.” The spirit of Gerontius is dropped into these “better waves”⁠—“miglior acqua.”

“Per correr miglior acqua alza le vele
Omai la navicella del mio ingegno
Che lascia dietro a se mar si crudele.”

“O’er better waves to speed her rapid course,
The light bark of my genius lifts her sail,
Well pleased to leave so cruel sea behind.”

—⁠Cary’s Translation.

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Verses on Various Occasions
was published in 1903 by
John Henry Newman.

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