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 than a hundred; some of them published for the first time.

Nothing can be more striking, nothing can be more true, than Dean Trench's estimate of Adam: if it have a fault, I think that it hardly does this wonderful poet justice.

"His profound acquaintance with the whole circle of the theology of his time, and eminently with its exposition of Scripture,—the abundant and admirable use which he makes of it, delivering as he thus does his poems from the merely subjective cast of those, beautiful as they are, of S. Bernard,—the exquisite art and variety with which for the most part his verse is managed and his rhymes disposed—their rich melody multiplying and ever deepening at the close—the strength which often he concentrates into a single line—his skill in conducting a narration—and most of all, the evident nearness of the things which he celebrates to his own heart of hearts—all these, and other excellencies, render him, as far as my judgment goes, the foremost among the sacred Latin poets of the middle ages."

of a Heavenly , Faithful people, joy, the rather That the Prophet's lore ye gather, From Ezekiel's Vision draw: John that Prophet's witness sharing, In the Apocalypse declaring, "This I write, true record bearing Of the things I truly saw."