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 "Chritian Life in Song." But here again the two renderings illutrate how the more free is occaionally the more literal; how it may give the leading thought or image of the author which the more critical may overlook. Thus the

Come, Thou Father of the poor,

Giver from a boundles tore

Light of Hearts, O hine!

of Mrs. Charles, mies the impreive Veni, Veni, Veni of the original, which is plendidly rendered by Mis Winkworth:

Come, Father of the poor, to earth;

Come with Thy gifts of precious worth;

Come, Light of all of mortal birth!

The Veni Creator Spiritus has been acribed to Charlemagne, and in the firt edition it was aid, with ome reervation, that his authorhip is not impoible. I have allowed his name to remain at the head of it, but my preent concluion is that it was written before the time of the Great King. Mr. Benedict, judging from internal evidence alone, acribes it to St. Ambroe, who