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Steibert called the una corda the celeste, which is more appropriate to it than Adam's application of this name to the harp-stop, by which the latter has gone ever since. Up to quite the end of the last century the dampers were continued to the highest note in the treble.
The Gospel, in this manner, has been the most efficient remedy for the weariness of ordinary life, a perpetual sursum corda, a powerful diversion from the miserable cares of earth, a gentle appeal like that of Jesus in the ear of Martha "Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things; but one thing is needful."
The right foot-pedal acted first as the piano register, shifting the impact of each hammer to two unisons instead of three; a wooden stop in the right hand key-block permitted the action to be shifted yet further to the right, and reducing the blow to one string only, produced the pianissimo register or una corda of indescribable attractiveness of sound.
It is a sorry business. But sursum corda. My two friends came as expected, also Missie, and stayed till half-past ten. Promised Sharpe the set of Piranesi's views in the dining-parlour. They belonged to my uncle, so I do not like to sell them. February 15. Yesterday I did not write a line of Woodstock. Partly, I was a little out of spirits, though that would not have hindered.
"They will soon be here, lad," said Hugo, beside me on the wall. "Let us say, 'Sursum corda." "Ay, 'ad Dominum," I answered bravely. Now, these were our sign and countersign for our holy war that day.
"I am hard at work," writes Father Hecker to a friend, in the very midst of these labors, "in soliciting subscriptions for our convent and temporary church. I have worked hard in my life, but this is about the hardest. However, it goes. I had, a couple of weeks ago, a donation of $200 from a Protestant. Yesterday a subscription of $90 from another. Sursum Corda and go ahead, is my cry!"
American Poetry in the eighteen-nineties William Vaughn Moody his early death a serious loss to literature George Santayana a master of the sonnet Robert Underwood Johnson his moral idealism Richard Burton his healthy optimism his growth Edwin Markham and his famous poem Ella Wheeler Wilcox her additions to our language Edmund Vance Cooke Edith M. Thomas Henry van Dyke George E. Woodberry his spiritual and ethereal quality William Dudley Foulke translator of Petrarch the late H. K. Vielé his whimsicality Cale Young Rice his prolific production his versatility Josephine P. Peabody Sursum Corda her child poems Edwin Arlington Robinson a forerunner of the modern advance his manliness and common sense intellectual qualities.
He considered her as one of those delusions of fancy, one of those women above mortal height, like Tasso's Eleanora, Dante's Beatrice, Petrarch's Laura, or Vittoria Colonna, the lover, the poet, and the heroine at once, forms that flit across the earth, scarcely touching it, and without tarrying, only to fascinate the eyes of some men, the privileged few of love, to lead on their souls to immortal aspirations, and to be the sursum corda of superior imaginations.
The sin that he had committed in his youth had, he trusted, been washed away by his fastings and mortifications. In that event surely his prayers to the Virgin, Saint Cuthbert, and Saint Oswyn, would prevail, and the Danes would come not with fire and sword against his beloved cell. The Prior's heart glowed in hope renewed. 'Sursum corda, he murmured, then recommenced his litany.
In following the Cistercian office Durtal could recognize the morsels of plain chant still preserved in parish masses. All the part of the Canon, the "Sursum Corda," the "Vere Dignum," the Antiphons, the "Pater," remained intact. Only the "Sanctus" and the "Agnus Dei" were changed.
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