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Dies ira, dies illa
Solvet seclum in favilla
Teste Petro et Sibylla.

Quantus tremor est futurus,
Quando judex est venturus,
Cuncta stricte discussurus.

Tuba mirum, spargens sonum
Per sepulchra regionum
Coget omnes ante thronum.

Mors stupebit et natura,
Cum resurget creatura
Judicandi responsura.

In

Liber scriptus proferetur,
quo totum continetur
Unde mundus judicetur.

Judex ergo cum sedebit,
Quicquid latet, apparebit,,
Nil inultum remanebit.

Quid sum, miser, tum dicturus?
Quem patronum rogaturus?

Cum nec justus sit securus.

Rex tremendæ majestatis,
Qui salvandos salvas gratis,
Salva me, fons bonitatis.

Recordare, JESU pie,
Quod sum causa tuæ vitæ
Ne me perdas illa die!

Quærens me venisti lassus,
Redemisti cruce passus:
Tantus labor non fit cassus!

Juste judex ultionis
Donum fac remissionis
Ante diem rationis.

Ingemisco tanquam reus,
Culpa rubet vultus meus,
Deprecanti parce DEUS!

Qui Mariam absolvisti
Et latronem exaudisti

Mihi quoque spem dedisti.

Preces meæ non sunt digna:
Sed tu, Bone, fac benique
Ne perenni cremer ique.

Inter oves locum præsta
Et ab hædis me sequestra
Statuens in parte dextra.

Confutatis maledictis
Flammis acribus addictis
Voca me cum benedictis.

Ut consors beatitatis
Vivam cum justificatis
In ævum æternitatis.

Oro supplex et acclinis,
Cor contritum, quasi cinis,
Ger curam mei finis.

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Translation of the above by LORD ROSCOMMON.

[It is to be observed that his Lordship begins his version, or rather paraphrase, at the 5th stauza of the Latin: Dies ira, dies illa; and he has injudiciously altered Peter to David.]

THE day of wrath, that dreadful day,

Shall the whole world in ashes lay,

As David and the Sibyls say.

What horror will invade the mind,

When the strict judge who would be kind,
Shall have few venial faults to find.

The

The last loud trumpet's wond'rous sound
Shall thro' the rending tombs rebound,
And wake the nations under ground.

Nature and death shall with surprize
Behold the pale offender rise,

And view the Judge with conscious eyes.

Then shall, with universal dread,
The sacred mystic roll be read,
To try the living and the dead.

The judge ascends his awful throne,
He makes each secret sin be known,
And all with shame confess their own.

Oh! then what int'rest can I make,
To save my last important stake,
When the most just have cause to quake!

Thou mighty formidable king,'
Thou mercy's unexhausted spring,

Some comfortable pity bring.

Forget not what my ransom cost,
Nor let my dear-bought soul be lost,
In storms of guilty terror tost.

Thou, who for me didst feel such pain,
Whose precious blood the cross did stain,
Let not these agonies be vain.

Thou, whom avenging pow'rs obey,
Cancel my debt, too great to pay,
Before the sad accounting day."

Surrounded with amazing fears,
Whose load my soul with anguish bears,
I sigh, I weep; accept my tears.

Thou, who wast moved by Mary's grief,
And by absolving of the thief,

Hast given me hope, Oh! give relief.

Reject not my unworthy pray'r, Preserve me from the dangerous snare. Which death and gaping hell prepare.

Give my exalted soul a place
Among thy chosen right-hand race,
The sons of God, and heirs of grace.

From that insatiable abyss,

Where flames devour, and serpents hiss,
Promote me to thy seat of bliss!

Prostrate, my contrite heart I bend;
My God, my Father, and my Friend,
Do not forsake me in the end.

Well may they curse their second breath,
Who rise to a reviving death.
Thou great Creator of mankind,
Let guilty man compassion find!

FOR THE ORTHODOX CHURCHMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Verses written on a blank Leaf of the "Orphans of

Llangloed."

TRUE to fair

RUE to life's changing scenes, fair moralist,

Nor is the lesson of inferior worth,

That saves the guiltless suff'rer from despair.
What, tho' Louisa's innocence seem guilt;
Or virtue, like Glendower's lie oppress'd;
Providence, still mindful of its vot'ries,
Thus tries their virtues, and exalts their joys."
As the fair face of Heav'n still fairer seems,
The storm o'erpast, which late its glories veiled,'
So virtue briglitens at Misfortune's frown;
And bliss, succeeding woe, is doubly felt.

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Vol. X. Churchm. Mag. for March 1806. H h

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LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

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A Archbishop of Canterbury, on the probable Number of the Clergy, and other Matters relating to the Church. 2s...

Trikemeron Sacrum, or an abridg ed Preparation for receiving the Lord's Supper, with Forms of Service and Rules of Abstinence, to commence on Friday Noon, in the preceding Week. 1s. or on inferior paper 6d.

Sermon preached in the Chapel of the Foundling Hospital, on the Fast Day. By the Rev. J. Hewlett, B. D. 1s.

A Sermon preached before the University of Oxford, Nov. 24,

Interpretation of the 87th Psalm. By John Eveleigh, D. D. Provost of Oriel. 1s.

The Reality of the Powder Plot vindicated from some recent Misrepresentations. A Sermon preached before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's, on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1805. By Ralph Churton, M. A. Archdeacon of St. David's, &c. 1s. 6d.

Letter to a Country Gentleman, containing some Remarks on the Principles and Conduct of those Ministers of the Church of England who exclusively style themselves Evangelical Preachers. 1s.6d.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

MR. Hayley has addressed a let- larly, endeared to the departed.

ter to the persons who have subscribed for a monument. to the memory of Cowper the poet,in which he announces his intention of publishing the Latin and Italian poems of Milton translated by Cowper, with all that remains of his projected Dissertations on Paradise Lost, in one quarto volume, at the price of two guineas. At the samne time Mr. Hayley recommends, that instead of a marble monument, the produce be applied for the benefit of an orphan boy, the favourite godson and namesake of Cowper. "I am confident," says Mr. H. "that no tribute of respect to Cowper's memory could be more truly acceptable to his pure and beneficent mind than what I propose; and I feel a pleasure in believing, that I may gratify many of his admirers by offering them an opportunity of purchasing the posthumous poetry of my friend, and of indulging at the same time their feelings of tenderness and benevo lence towards an orphan particu

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poet."

The Rev. Mr. Van Mildert, rector of St. Mary le Bow, will, we understand, speedily publish, his sermons preached at Boyle's tecture. In noticing this, we beg leave to ask, what is become of that excellent endowment made by Lady Moyer for lectures on the divinity of Christ, &c. against Arians and other heretics? Is it lost?

Mr. Mounsey, of Baliol College, Oxford, is about to publish, The Proverbs of Ali, with a Latin version, and notes, by Cornelius Van Weener. The work is proceeding on at the Clarendon Press, and will make one handsome quarto volume.

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Haas, the engraver of Basil, pro poses to publish an edition of the Old Testament in the Hebrew language, with characters which he has recently engraved. From a specimen of this edition it appears, that he has completely succeeded in giving a distinct form to such letters as have some resemblance,

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