Subject: | | Re: De profundis? |
From: | | Bill East <[log in to unmask]> |
Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 4 Apr 2000 11:20:28 +0100 (BST)619_iso-8859-1 Interim Saints - April 4th
AGATHOPUS, deacon and martyr, and THEODULUS, lector and martyr (beginning of 4th cent)
Agathopus a deacon, and Theodulus, a lector . . . were, by the governor's orders, thrown into the sea with stones round their necks.
TIGHERNACH, bishop of Clones (A.D. 550)
. . . one day when his chariot driver did not urge on the horses atg sufficient speed, an angel assumed the whip and reins, to the great astonishment of the driver, and when he took off his hat and stared at the angelic charioteer, contrary to the orders of S. Tighernach, [...]51_4Apr200011:20:28+0100(BST)[log in to unmask] |
Date: | | Tue, 25 Apr 2000 07:21:45 +0100 (BST) |
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> > Bill,
> > This leads me back to Oscar Wilde. Would he have known a Latin
> version of
> > the psalm, or would he have known a BCP version from which he took
> his title?
It has of course been pretty frequently rendered into English. No
doubt you will know the verse version, "De profundis" by Thomas
Campion:
Out of my soul's depth to thee my cries have sounded:
Let thine ears my plaints receive, on just fear grounded.
Lord, shoulds't thou wiegh our faults, who's not confounded?
But with grace thou censur'st thine when they have errèd,
Therefore shall thy blessed name be loved and fearèd.
E'en to thy throne my thoughts and eyes are rearèd.
Thee alone my hopes attend, on thee relying;
In thy sacred word I'll trust, to thee fast flying,
Long ere the watch shall break, the morn descrying.
In the mercies of our God who live securèd,
May of full redemption rest in him assurèd,
Their sin-sick souls by him shall be recurèd.
Oriens.
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