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Poem of the Day: BEDE.CommEpistCath.Praef

  1. XXV
  2. Iacobus Cephas Iohannes Thaddeus uno
  3. Spiritus excelsi flagrantes lumine septem
  4. Conscripsere saris celestia* dona libellis;
  5. Que* maneant sine fine pios, sed et ira per evum*
  6. Quanta abdat ceco* baratri sub carcere sontes,
  7. Oris apostolici concordi voce profantur.
  8. Mystica nos quorum lecturi dicta preamur;
  9. ‘Spiritus alme veni nostrumque iuvato laborem,
  10. cui facile est donare tui sublimia, ut alto
  11. ...

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Word Form of the Day: wuldras

Number of occurrences in corpus: 1

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Metre of the Day

Riddles 55 1a

Bliss
Scansion: xxxSx
Type: a1c
Sievers
Scansion: xxx / x
Type: A3

Syntax: VP
Light Verse

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Other places with this scansion (sievers)

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