• Cowley, “Hymn to Light”:⁠— “Thou Scythian-like dost round thy lands above The sun’s gilt tent forever move; And still as thou in pomp dost go, The shining pageants of the world attend thy show.” ↩
• The Virgin ascending to her son. Fray Luis Ponce de Leon, “Assumption of the Virgin”:⁠— “Lady! thine upward flight The opening heavens receive with joyful song; Blest who thy mantle bright May seize amid the throng, And to the sacred mount float peacefully along! “Bright angels are around thee, They that have served thee from thy birth are there; Their hands with stars have crowned thee; Thou, peerless Queen of air, As sandals to thy feet the silver moon dost wear!” ↩
• An Easter Hymn to the Virgin:⁠— “Regina coeli, laetare! Alleluia. Quja quem meruisti portare, Alleluia. Resurrexit, sicut dixit. Alleluia.” This hymn, according to Collin de Plancy, Légendes des Commandements de l’Église , p. 14, Pope Gregory the Great heard the angels singing, in the pestilence of Rome in 890, and on hearing it added another line:⁠— “Ora pro nobis Deum! Alleluia.” ↩
• Caring not for gold and silver in the Babylonian exile of this life, they laid up treasures in the other. ↩