Religion
Salve urbs refugii
Translated by Edward Caswall (1849) · From Lyra Catholica (1849)
Hail, City of refuge!
Hail, David’s high tower
With battlements crown’d,
And girded with power
Fill’d at thy Conception
With Love and with Light
The Dragon by Thee
Was shorn of his might.
O Woman most valiant!
O Judith thrice blest!
As David was nurs’d
In fair Abishag’s breast;
As the saviour of Egypt
Upon Rachel’s knee;
So the world’s great Redeemer
Was fondled by Thee.
Codex Note
Latin: Salve urbs refugii. Printed in Caswall's Lyra Catholica (1849) among the Hymns from the Office of the Immaculate Conception.
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Anonymous Latin Hymns. “Salve urbs refugii.” Translated by Edward Caswall. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-latin-hymns/210/.
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Anonymous Latin Hymns. “Salve urbs refugii.” Translated by Edward Caswall. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-latin-hymns/210/.
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