{"id":3483,"date":"2009-01-02T22:28:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T22:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/et-balsamo-suavior\/"},"modified":"2009-01-02T22:28:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T22:28:25","slug":"et-balsamo-suavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/et-balsamo-suavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Et balsamo suavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/virgin_c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"virgin_c.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/virgin_c-thumb-300x338.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"338\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nStill using Father Caswall&#8217;s translation, I am giving only a selection of the twenty-four verses that make up this section of the hymn.  Father Caswall renders the text with a certain liberty; it is not a literal translation.  He does capture, nonetheless, something of the delicacy and sweetness of the Latin.<br \/>\n<strong>At Lauds<\/strong><br \/>\nO Jesu, thou the beauty art<br \/>\nOf angel worlds above;<br \/>\nThy name is music to the heart,<br \/>\nEnchanting it with love.<br \/>\nFor thee I yearn, for thee I sigh;<br \/>\nWhen wilt thou come to me,<br \/>\nAnd make me glad eternally<br \/>\nWith the blest sight of thee?<br \/>\nO Jesu, love unchangeble,<br \/>\nFor whom my soul doth pine!<br \/>\nO fruit of life celestial!<br \/>\nO sweetness all divine!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nO kindness infinite, supreme!<br \/>\nMy joy and true repose!<br \/>\nO depth of charity extreme,<br \/>\nWhich no abatement knows!<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis good that I my love should give<br \/>\nSave thee to none beside;<br \/>\nAnd dying to myself should live<br \/>\nFor Jesus crucified!<br \/>\nO my sweet Jesu, hear the sighs<br \/>\nWhich unto thee I send;<br \/>\nTo thee mine inmost spirit cries,<br \/>\nMy being&#8217;s hope and end!<br \/>\nThy presence with me I desire,<br \/>\nWherever I may be;<br \/>\nThis, Lord, is all that I require<br \/>\nFor my felicity!<br \/>\nThy kiss is bliss beyond compare,<br \/>\nA bliss for evermore;<br \/>\nO, that thy visits were less rare,<br \/>\nAnd not so quickly o&#8217;er!<br \/>\nNow have I gained my long desire,<br \/>\nNow what I sought is mine;<br \/>\nNow is my heart, O Christ on fire<br \/>\nWith thy true love divine.<br \/>\nO fairest of the sons of day!<br \/>\nMore  fragrant than the rose!<br \/>\nO brighter than the dazzling ray<br \/>\nThat in the sunbeam glows!<br \/>\nReturn, return, pure Light of Light,<br \/>\nTo thy dread throne again;<br \/>\nGo forth victorious from the fight,<br \/>\nAnd in thy glory reign.<br \/>\nLead where thou wilt, I follow thee,<br \/>\nAnd will not stay behind;<br \/>\nFor thou hast torn my heart from me,<br \/>\nO Glory of our kind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still using Father Caswall&#8217;s translation, I am giving only a selection of the twenty-four verses that make up this section of the hymn. Father Caswall renders the text with a certain liberty; it is not a literal translation. He does capture, nonetheless, something of the delicacy and sweetness of the Latin. 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