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Ecce tempus est vernale.[1]
An Easter sequence, published by Du Méril from a manuscript of the thirteenth century. The poet borrows one line from the Pange Lingua of Fortunatus, and seems, in another place, to copy Adam of S. Victor. The metre is very rare.
Spring returns with jubilation,
When the Tree of our salvation,
Chiefest of the forest nation,
Wrought the work of reparation,
Fallen man redeeming.
Through Judæa's rage infernal
From the nut breaks forth the kernel:[2]
Hangs upon the Cross the Eternal:
Trembles earth: the sun supernal
Hides in shades his beaming.
Accusation, condemnation,
Pillar, thongs, and flagellation,
Gall and bitter coronation,
This He bore, and reprobation,
