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N the year 997, "whilt the priethood truggled to regain through their anathemas the property that had been taken from them by violence, a young man, who knew neither to threaten nor to lie, nor to inpire others with fear, ucceeded to the royal dignity which his father had uurped. It was Robert, only on of Hugh Capet."—''Simondi, Hit. Français.''

This King, "there is no good reaon to doubt" (Konigsfeld), was the author of the, a hymn that the bet living authority regards as all the loveliet of all the hymns in the whole circle of Latin acred poetry."—Trench.

The ability of Robert II. to have compoed the hymn which ranks next to the Dies Iræ and