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The Judge that comes in mercy,

The Judge that comes with might,

To terminate the evil,

To diadem the right.

When the jut and gentle Monarch

Shall ummon from the tomb,

Let man, the guilty, tremble,

For Man, the God, hall doom!

The Dies Iræ is undoubtedly the greatet of the mediæval hymns. It tands "majetic and olitary" in the words of Mr. Benedict; its train is "o clear and deep that its oftet tones are heard throughout Chritendom," in the words of Mrs. Charles. The zeal of the tranlator has not cooled, and many tranlations have been publihed, and many, unpublihed, have been ent to me ince the firt edition of this work. A econd verion was made by General Dix, which he deemed uperior to the firt, but which was unquetionably inferior. The firt tanza, for example, is as follows:

Day of vengeance, lo! that morning

On the earth in ahes dawning,

David with the Sibyl warning.