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 12 THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT What he did was to leave out the strongest parts of the original altogether, and to give a weakened rendering of the rest. The original, which belongs to the ninth century, and is therefore earlier and stronger than the Golden Sequence, has five stanzas (not counting the original Doxology) to Cosin's three. Let us set Cosin side by side with the very fine and very