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6 The beautiful implicity of its artles, childlike lines portrays more naturally the fervid imagery of the monk. After even hundred years of darknes, the holy fervor of Bernard re-kindles in it as warmly as when in the warmth of his devotion he believed himelf pecially inpired by the Mot High. In another language, at another time, and among thoe who can but dimly trace his name in the crumbling record of his works, the Rhyme of the poor monk relives to gladden the hearts of other Chritians, loved by uch as poes its faith, and treaured by the gentlet and the bet of earth.