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Excerpt from The Heavenly Land: From the De Contemptu Mundi of Bernard De Morlaix Monk of Cluny (XII Century), Rendered Into Corresponding English Verse
Such a man was Bernard de Morlaix, the Monk of Cluny, whose poem I bring you here. Although he designed the De Contemptu Mundi as a cen sure to the abuses of his time, he could not conceal the longings which were in his soul. And although he was no saint, in title, like his contemporary and namesake, Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaulx, he was still a saint, indeed. We feel the reality of his hope; and while we stand in wonder at the mar vellons versification (unparalleled by any before or since), we are more impressed than ever by its fine simplicity. Those of his words which relate to heaven have lived, because they could not die. Such strains of lofty confidence appeal to every Christian heart, encouraging the strong, and raising to better efforts the doubting and the faint. Pilgrims our selves, as we trust, to those holy portals, we have here one of the purest and noblest of all pilgrim songs.
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