PASCHA - Easter

XIII. PASCHA

[English]

Mundi renovatio

Nova parit gaudia;

Resurgenti Domino

Conresurgunt omnia.

Elementa serviunt,

Et auctoris sentiunt

Quanta sit sollemnia.

Ignis volat mobilis,

Et aer volubilis,

Fluit aqua labilis,

Terra manet stabilis:

Alta petunt levia,

Centrum tenent gravia,

Renovantur omnia.

Coelum fir serenius,

Et mare tranquilius;

Spirat aura levius,

Vallis nostra floruit.

Revirescunt arida,

Recalsecunt frigida

Postquam ver intepuit.

Gelu mortis solvitur

Princeps mundi tollitur,

Et ejus destruitur

In nobis imperium;

Dum tenere voluit

In quo nihil habuit,

Jus amisit proprium.

Vita mortem superat;

Homo jam recuperat

Quod prius amiserat

Paradisi gaudium:

Viam praebat facilem,

Cherubim versatilem

Amovendo gladium.

Christus coelos reserat

Et captivos liberat

Quos culpa ligaverat

Sub mortis interitu.

Pro tanta victoria

Patri, Proli gloria

Sit cum Sancto Spiritu! Amen.

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XIII. EASTER

[Latin]

Spring's renewal of earth's plain

New-born joys to man supplies;

When the Lord doth rise again,

With Him also all things rise:

Elements upon him wait,

Feeling, as their source, how great

Should be his solemnities.

Fires their swift flames upward throw,

Lightly the air-eddies blow,

running waters onward flow,

Earth remains unmoved below:

Light things soar above the plain,

Heavy things their place retain,

All things are renewed again.

Heights of heaven serener be,

And more tranquil grows the sea;

Breathes the air more buoyantly,

And our vale fresh verdure shows;

What is dry once more revives,

What is cold new heat receives,

When with warmth the springtide glows.

Icy death dissolves to-day;

This world's prince is borne away,

And o'er us his hateful sway

Is destroyed for evermore:

Since he in possession sought

Him in whom he had not aught,

He hath lost his ancient power.

Death by life is triumphed o'er;

Man recovers now once more

All the bliss, which, lost of yore,

Paradise's joys afford:

Easy hath the way there proved,

Since the cherubim removed

Thence his ever-turning sword.

Christ re-opens heaven again,

Loosing every captive's chain,

Bound to undergo death's pain

For his foul iniquity.

Glory for such victory won

To the Father and the Son

With the Holy Spirit be! Amen.

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