Nothing in my hand I bring; While I draw this fleeting breath; When my eye-strings break in death; Let me hide myself in Thee. Nil in manu mecum fero, Sed me versus Crucem gero; Vestimenta nudus oro, Opem debilis imploro; Fontem Christi quæro immundus, Nisi laves, moribundus. Dum hos artus Vita regit; Mortuos cum stare jubes, Sedens Judex inter nubes ; Jesus, pro me perforatus, Condar intra Tuum latus. L 1848. Bishop Weber's Verses to his Wife. IF thou wert by my side, my love, In green Bengala's palmy grove, If thou, my love, wert by my side, My babies at my knee, How gaily would our pinnace glide O'er Gunga's mimic sea! I miss thee at the dawning day, Tu modo dux, tu comes, Uxor, esses, Quam daret lætos Philomela cantus, Palmeâ ut felix moreretur hora Vesperis umbrâ! Tu modo, ac tecum soboles, paterno Pendula amplexu, latus assideres ; Suaviter Gungæ scaphus auream de scenderet undam. Mane, surgenti relevandus aurâ, Dum super cymbæ tabulas recumbo, Te reluctanti, licet otiosus, Corde requiram. |