Hymn For Christmas-day (hymnus Viii. Kalendas Ianuarias) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDB BABC AAEA FAAA AADA CDCA ACAE BGCC BACB CCCC CBAH CDCD AACA ACAD CCBD BCBC DABD DDDA CCCB CGDC ACFC CIAC IBBI AADB AGFA AAAA ECBC ADAB AAGC C HHCC CCCC BBAA DDCC JJGG CCAA AAEE CCBB AACC GGAA EECC AADD KKAA AACC CCEE GGLA AACC CCMM AACC DDHH GMCC CCGG AACC CCEE CCEE AACC CCCC GGCC NNCC| Hymnus VIII Kalendas Ianuarias | A |
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| Quid est quod artum circulum | B |
| sol iam recurrens deserit | C |
| Christusne terris nascitur | D |
| qui lucis auget tramitem | B |
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| Heu quam fugacem gratiam | B |
| festina volvebat dies | A |
| quam pene subductam facem | B |
| sensim recisa extinxerat | C |
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| Caelum nitescat laetius | A |
| gratetur et gaudens humus | A |
| scandit gradatim denuo | E |
| iubar priores lineas | A |
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| Emerge dulcis pusio | F |
| quem mater edit castitas | A |
| parens et expers coniugis | A |
| mediator et duplex genus | A |
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| Ex ore quamlibet Patris | A |
| sis ortus et verbo editus | A |
| tamen paterno in pectore | D |
| sophia callebas prius | A |
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| Quae prompta caelum condidit | C |
| caelum diemque et cetera | D |
| virtute verbi effecta sunt | C |
| haec cuncta nam verbum Deus | A |
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| Sed ordinatis seculis | A |
| rerumque digesto statu | C |
| fundator ipse et artifex | A |
| permansit in Patris sinu | E |
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| donec rotata annalium | B |
| transvolverentur milia | G |
| atque ipse peccantem diu | C |
| dignatus orbera viseret | C |
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| Nam caeca vis mortalium | B |
| venerans inanes nenias | A |
| vel aera vel saxa algida | C |
| vel ligna credebat Deum | B |
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| Haec dum sequuntur perfidi | C |
| praedonis in ius venerant | C |
| et mancipatam fumido | C |
| vitam barathro inmerserant | C |
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| Stragem sed istam non tulit | C |
| Christus cadentum gentium | B |
| inpune ne forsan sui | A |
| Patris periret fabrica | H |
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| Mortale corpus induit | C |
| ut excitato corpore | D |
| mortis catenam frangeret | C |
| hominemque portaret Patri | D |
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| Hic ille natalis dies | A |
| quo te creator arduus | A |
| spiravit et limo indidit | C |
| sermone carnem glutinans | A |
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| Sentisne virgo nobilis | A |
| matura per fastidia | C |
| pudoris intactum decus | A |
| honore partus crescere | D |
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| O quanta rerum gaudia | C |
| alvus pudica continet | C |
| ex qua novellum seculum | B |
| procedit et lux aurea | D |
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| Vagitus ille exordium | B |
| vernantis orbis prodidit | C |
| nam tunc renatus sordidum | B |
| mundus veternum depulit | C |
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| Sparsisse tellurem reor | D |
| rus omne densis floribus | A |
| ipsasque arenas syrtium | B |
| fragrasse nardo et nectare | D |
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| Te cuncta nascentem puer | D |
| sensere dura et barbara | D |
| victusque saxorum rigor | D |
| obduxit herbam cotibus | A |
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| Iam mella de scopulis fluunt | C |
| iam stillat ilex arido | C |
| sudans amomum stipite | C |
| iam sunt myricis balsama | B |
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| O sancta praesepis tui | C |
| aeterne rex cunabula | G |
| populisque per seclum sacra | D |
| mutis et ipsis credita | C |
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| Adorat haec brutum pecus | A |
| indocta turba scilicet | C |
| adorat excors natio | F |
| vis cuius in pastu sita est | C |
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| Sed cum fideli spiritu | C |
| concurrat ad praesepia | I |
| pagana gens et quadrupes | A |
| sapiatque quod brutum fuit | C |
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| Negat patrum prosapia | I |
| perosa praesentem Deum | B |
| credas venenis ebriam | B |
| furiisve lymphatam rapi | I |
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| Quid prona per scelus ruis | A |
| agnosce si quidquam tibi | A |
| mentis resedit integrae | D |
| ducem tuorum principum | B |
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| Hunc quem latebra et obstetrix | A |
| et virgo feta et cunulae | G |
| et inbecilla infantia | F |
| regem dederunt gentibus | A |
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| peccator intueberis | A |
| celsum coruscis nubibus | A |
| deiectus ipse et inritus | A |
| plangens reatum fletibus | A |
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| Cum vasta signum bucina | E |
| terris cremandis miserit | C |
| et scissus axis cardinem | B |
| mundi ruentis solverit | C |
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| Insignis ipse et praeminens | A |
| meritis rependet congrua | D |
| his lucis usum perpetis | A |
| illis gehennam et tartarum | B |
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| Iudaea tunc fulmen crucis | A |
| experta qui sit senties | A |
| quem te furoris praesule | G |
| mors hausit et mox reddidit | C |
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| Hymn For Christmas Day | C |
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| Why doth the sun re orient take | H |
| A wider range his limits break | H |
| Lo Christ is born and o'er earth's night | C |
| Shineth from more to more the light | C |
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| Too swiftly did the radiant day | C |
| Her brief course run and pass away | C |
| She scarce her kindly torch had fired | C |
| Ere slowly fading it expired | C |
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| Now let the sky more brightly beam | B |
| The earth take up the joyous theme | B |
| The orb a broadening pathway gains | A |
| And with its erstwhile splendour reigns | A |
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| Sweet babe of chastity the flower | D |
| A virgin's blest mysterious dower | D |
| Rise in Thy twofold nature's might | C |
| Rise God and man to reunite | C |
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| Though by the Father's will above | J |
| Thou wert begot the Son of Love | J |
| Yet in His bosom Thou didst dwell | G |
| Of Wisdom the eternal Well | G |
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| Wisdom whereby the heavens were made | C |
| And light's foundations first were laid | C |
| Creative Word all flows from Thee | A |
| The Word is God eternally | A |
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| For though with process of the suns | A |
| The ordered whole harmonious runs | A |
| Still the Artificer Divine | E |
| Leaves not the Father's inmost shrine | E |
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| The rolling wheels of Time had passed | C |
| O'er their millennial journey vast | C |
| Before in judgment clad He came | B |
| Unto the world long steeped in shame | B |
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| The purblind souls of mortals crass | A |
| Had trusted gods of stone and brass | A |
| To things of nought their worship paid | C |
| And senseless blocks of wood obeyed | C |
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| And thus employed they fell below | G |
| The sway of man's perfidious foe | G |
| Plunged in the smoky sheer abyss | A |
| They sank bereft of their true bliss | A |
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| But that sore plight of ruined man | E |
| Christ's pity could not lightly scan | E |
| Nor let God's building nobly wrought | C |
| Ingloriously be brought to nought | C |
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| He wrapped Him in our fleshly guise | A |
| That from the tomb He might arise | A |
| And man released from death's grim snare | D |
| Home to His Father's bosom bear | D |
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| This is the day of Thy dear birth | K |
| The bridal of the heaven and earth | K |
| When the Creator breathed on Thee | A |
| The breath of pure humanity | A |
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| Ah glorious Maid dost thou not guess | A |
| What guerdon thy chaste soul shall bless | A |
| How by thy ripening pangs is bought | C |
| An honour greater than all thought | C |
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| O what a load of joy untold | C |
| Thy womb inviolate doth hold | C |
| Of thee a golden age is born | E |
| The brightness of the earth's new morn | E |
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| Hearken doth not the infant's wail | G |
| The universal springtide hail | G |
| For now the world re born lays by | L |
| Its gloomy frost bound apathy | A |
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| Methinks in all her rustic bowers | A |
| The earth is spread with clustering flowers | A |
| Odours of nard and nectar sweet | C |
| E'en o'er the sands of Syrtes fleet | C |
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| All places rough and deserts wild | C |
| Have felt from far Thy coming Child | C |
| Rocks to Thy gentle empire bow | M |
| And verdure clothes the mountain brow | M |
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| Sweet honey from the boulder leaps | A |
| The sere and leafless oak bough weeps | A |
| A strange rich attar tamarisks too | C |
| Of balsam pure distil the dew | C |
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| Bless d for ever cradle dear | D |
| The lowly stall the cavern drear | D |
| Men to this shrine Eternal King | H |
| With dumb brutes adoration bring | H |
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| The ox and ass in homage low | G |
| Obedient to their Maker bow | M |
| Bows too the unlearn'd heartless crowd | C |
| Whose minds the sensual feast doth cloud | C |
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| Though by the faithful Spirit impelled | C |
| Shepherds and brutes unreasoning held | C |
| Yea folk that did in darkness dwell | G |
| Discern their God in His poor cell | G |
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| Yet children of the sacred race | A |
| Blindly abhor the Incarnate grace | A |
| By philtres you might deem them lulled | C |
| Or by some bacchic phrenzy dulled | C |
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| Why headlong thus to ruin stride | C |
| If aught of soundness in you bide | C |
| Behold in Him the Lord divine | E |
| Of all your patriarchal line | E |
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| Mark you the dim lit cave the Maid | C |
| The humble nurse the cradle laid | C |
| The helpless infancy forlorn | E |
| Yet thus the Gentiles' King was born | E |
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| Ah sinner thou shalt one day see | A |
| This Child in dreadful majesty | A |
| See Him in glorious clouds descend | C |
| While thou thy guilty heart shalt rend | C |
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| Vain all thy tears when loud shall sound | C |
| The trump when flames shall scorch the ground | C |
| When from its hinge the cloven world | C |
| Is loosed in horrid tumult hurled | C |
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| Then throned on high the Judge of all | G |
| Shall mortals to their reckoning call | G |
| To these shall grant the prize of light | C |
| To those Gehenna's gloomy night | C |
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| Then Israel shalt thou learn at length | N |
| The Cross hath as the lightning strength | N |
| Doomed by thy wrath He now is Lord | C |
| Whom Death once grasped but soon restored | C |
Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
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Hymn For Christmas-day (hymnus Viii. Kalendas Ianuarias) is a poem by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.