Lauda Sion Salvatorem
Lauda Sion Salvatorem. Thomas Aquinas* (ca. 1224/5-1274). This is one of the sequences* by Aquinas for the feast of Corpus Christi. It was in three parts. Part I had ten 6-line stanzas, rhyming aabccb, followed by Part II beginning ‘Ecce, Panis angelorum’, and Part III beginning ‘Bone Pastor, Panis vere’. Parts II and II have different stanza forms. A translation beginning ‘Laud, O Sion, thy salvation’ (from Orby Shipley*’s Divine Liturgy, 1863) is in EH, with Part II beginning ‘Lo! the Angels’ food is given’, and Part III beginning ‘Very Bread, good Shepherd, tend us’. It is divided into two hymns in NEH; in both books it has a plainchant setting.
Before EH/NEH there were many translations...
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