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The prayers ended with a special reference to those present, that they might persevere in the Lord even to the end. And then the priest began the Sursum corda, and said the Sanctus. The Canon or Actio seems to have run, in all but a few words, as it does now, and the solemn words of consecration were said secretly.

Cæcilius responded, as before, with sacred words which were new to Agellius: “ ‘Qui sperant in Domino mutabunt fortitudinem; assument pennas, sicut aquilæ,’ ‘Sursum corda!’ you must soar, Agellius.” “ ‘Sursum corda!’ ” answered he; “I know those words. They are old friends; where have I heard them? I can’t recollect; but they are in my earliest memories.

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.

The Romans, in their religious exercises, began with 'Hoc age' as we in ours do with 'Sursum corda'; these are so many words lost to me: I come already fully prepared from my chamber. I need no allurement, no invitation, no sauce; I eat the meat raw, so that, instead of whetting my appetite by these preparatives, they tire and pall it.

Thus the world entered upon the summer of Saint Luke, to a new-risen sun, to thin mists stealing off the moor, to wet flowers hearted anew, to blue air, and hope left for those who would go gleaning. While Eustace Saint-Pol was snoring abed and the Abbot Milo at his Sursum Corda, Richard had Jehane by the hand. 'Come forth, my love; we have the broad day before us and an empty kingdom to roam in.

In 1910 her play The Piper won the Stratford-on-Avon prize, and subsequently proved to be one of the most successful plays seen on the American stage in the twentieth century. It was produced by the New Theatre, the finest stock company ever known in America. Josephine Peabody has written other dramas, and has an enviable reputation as a lyric poet. The burden of her poetry is Sursum Corda!

"Come along, boys we must do it this time." And, the troop forming, once more the trumpets sounded the charge, and up we went. Away along the slope we heard the other trumpeters sounding in answer, and I believe 'twas a sursum corda! to all of us.

Once a brawny humorist wrote to Doggie Trevor "Sursum cauda." Doggie happened to be at the time in a water-logged front trench in Flanders and the writer basking in the mild sunshine of Simla with his Territorial regiment. Doggie, bidden by the Hedonist of circumstance to up with his tail, felt like a scorpion. Such feelings, however, will be more adequately dealt with hereafter.

Do we feel at home there more than down in the bottoms, amongst the swamps, and the miasma, and the mists? Where is your home, brother? The Mass begins with Sursum corda: 'Up with your hearts, and that is the word for us.

He was therefore a most valuable book of reference, which told nothing except to his owner. With all this he was a great rider and loved hunting. His Sursum Corda was like a view-holloa, and when he said, Ite missa est, you would have sworn he was crying a stag's death instead of his Saviour's.