Religion
Crux fidelis inter omnes
Translated by Edward Caswall (1849) · From Lyra Catholica (1849)
Religion
Faithful Cross, O Tree all beauteous!
Tree all peerless and divine!
Not a grove on earth can shew us
Such a flower and leaf as thine.
Sweet the nails, and sweet the wood,
Laden with so sweet a load!
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Codex Note
Latin: Crux fidelis inter omnes. Printed in Caswall's Lyra Catholica (1849) among the Hymns and Sequences of the Roman Missal.
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Fortunatus, Venantius. “Crux fidelis inter omnes.” Translated by Edward Caswall. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/venantius-fortunatus/9/.
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Fortunatus, Venantius. “Crux fidelis inter omnes.” Translated by Edward Caswall. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/venantius-fortunatus/9/.
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