In the Lord’s atoning grief

In the Lord’s atoning grief. Bonaventura da Bagnoregio* (ca. 1217-1247), translated by Frederick Oakeley* (1802-1880). St Bonaventura’s hymn was written for Matins at the Office of the Holy Cross; one account is that it was written at the request of King Louis IX of France (Saint Louis, King from 1226 to 1270). It began ‘In passione Domini, qua datur salus homini’. Oakeley’s translation was written when he was still an Anglican, and printed in his Devotions Commemorative of the Passion (1842). It appeared with some alterations in the First Edition of A&M (1861), in five verses. Verse 2 line 2 was ‘Wounds, our treasure that enhance’, changed in A&M (1904) to ‘Wounds, our rich...