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Rh almot as eaily as in his own. He undertood Greek, and tudied Hebrew."

There remains of his mue an epitaph on Adrian I., in thirty-eight veres; the Song of Roland, an ode to the cholar Warnefride, and an epigram in hexameter vere. This epigram was found in a manucript containing a commentary on the Epitle to the Romans, attributed to Origen, and corrected in the hand of Charlemagne. The ubject of the hymn eems alo to have engaged the attention of the Emperor, for there is a letter by him addreed to his bihops, entitled De gratia eptiformis Spiritus. He died at Aix-la-Chapelle, his crown upon his head, and his copy of the Gopels upon his knees, January 28, 814.

The Englih verion of the hymn is the paraphrae of Dryden, of which Warton ays: "This is a mot elegant and beautiful little morel, and one of his mot correct compoitions." There is a tranlation in the Prayer Book (Ordering of Priets) which is noteworthy, as being the only Breviary hymn retained by the Epicopal Church.