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205 1. "Alleluia, Turma, proclama leta;
 * Laude canora,

Facta prome divina,
 * Jam instituta

Superna disciplina,

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 * Christi sacra
 * Per magnalia

Es quia de morte liberata
 * Ut destructa
 * Inferni claustra

Januaque celi patefacta!

3 Jam nunc omnia
 * Celestia
 * Terrestria

Virtute gubernat eterna.
 * In quibus sua
 * Judicia
 * Semper equa

Dat auctoritate paterna"

As the eleventh century closed and the great twelfth century dawned, the forces of mediaeval growth quickened to a mightier vitality, and distinctively mediaeval creations appeared. Our eyes, of course, are fixed upon the northern lands, where the Sequence grew from prose to verse, and where derivative or analogous forms of popular poetry developed also. Up to this time, throughout mediaeval life and thought, progress had been somewhat uncrowned with palpable achievement. Yet the first brilliant creations of a master-workman are the fruit of his apprentice years, during which his progress has been as real as when his works begin to make it visible. So it was no sudden birth