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FONS SAPIENTIAE


O sempiternae Fons sapientiae,
Nondum inuocato numine praeuidens
(Quantis laboremus tenebris
Rerum inopes, inopes precandi,
Succurre egenis; quaeque uetat pudor
Rogare, uel quae nox anini tegit,
Largire, nec frustra petantur
Immeritis benefacta Christi.
Harrow, Oct. 29, 1872


GUBERNATOR ERRANTIUM


Caelestis Auctor, numine prouido
Nil non gubernans, quo duce sospites
Primum salutamus fugata
Nocte iubar, tuearis Idem
Lucis per horas. Pelle pericula,
Peccata longe reice; sic Tuo
Cursum gubernaclo regentes
Nos uetitas fugiemus undas.
Harrow, Nov. 9, 1872.
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ΠῚ


Almighty and everlasting God, Who art always more
ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give
more than either we desire, or deserve; Pour down
upon us the abundance of Thy mercy; forgiving us
those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving
us those good things which we are not worthy to ask,
but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ,


Thy Son, our Lord.
SAUCIORUM MEDICINA


Fons Caritatis, uota hominum Deus
Audire uelox tarda precantium,
O plura donature natis
Quam cupimus, Pater, aut meremur,
Descende amoris prodigus, et, sua
Delicta si quem conscia sauciant,
Ignosce, nec desit nocentum
Vulneribus medicina Christi.
Harrow, Nov. 15, 1872.
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REVELATION, CuHapters IV, V
CHAPTER IV


After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened
in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as
it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said,
Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which
must be hereafter.
And immediately | was in the spirit: and, be-
hold, a throne was set in heaven, and One sat on the
throne ;

And He that sat was to look upon like a jasper
and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round
about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
