O light of light, by love inclined

O light of light, by love inclined. Laurence Housman* (1865-1959). This is a translation of a Latin hymn of unknown origin, but at least as old as the 10th century, ‘O nata Lux de lumine’. This hymn for the Transfiguration was included in EH, to be sung to plainsong (though not the same melody as either of those associated with the Latin text in the manuscripts edited by Bruno Stäblein in Monumenta Monastica Medii Aevi, Kassel, 1956) or to the tune WHITEHALL by Henry Lawes*. The hymn is a straightforward narrative of the Transfiguration, which concentrates on what it shows of heaven rather than on the reaction of the disciples. Housman’s translation closely follows the original. The rhyming...