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He knew all now; and, by an inevitable impulse, his throat began to sing aloud words that, as he sang, opened for the first time as flowers telling their secret to the sun. O Salutaris Hostia Qui coeli pandis ostium. . . .
And as he stood before the altar, holding aloft with blood-stained hands the torn and mangled body of his murdered love, the voices of the guests bidden to the Eucharistic feast rang out in another peal of song: "Oh salutaris Hostia, Quae coeli pandis ostium; Bella praemunt hostilia, Da robur, fer, auxilium!"
According to this derivation, from setur comes satura or satira, according to the new spelling, as optumus and maxumus are now spelled optimus and maximus. Virgil has mentioned these sacrifices in his "Georgics": "Lancibus et pandis fumantia reddimus exta;"
'De Saevitia Teutonorum qui veniunt in pandis myoparonibus, libera nos, Domine! Scarce had he finished, when a startled brother approached rapidly a-tiptoe and touched the Prior gently on the shoulder. 'They come, Holy Prior! They come! the cruel heathen can be seen swiftly approaching in their long ships. Prior Olaf turned ashen pale.
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