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Te conscia partus

Mater et attoniti pecudum sensere timores.

Te nova sollicito lustrantes sidera visu

In caelo videre prius, lumenque secuti

Invenere magi. Tu noxia pectora solvis

Elapsasque animas in corpora functa reducis

Et vitam remeare iubes. Te lege recepti

Muneris ad Manes penetras mortisque latebras

Immortalis adis. Nasci tibi non fuit uni

Principium finisque mori, sed nocte refusa

In caelum patremque redis rursusque perenni

Ordine purgatis adimis contagia terris.

Tu solus patrisque comes, tu spiritus insons,

Et toties unus triplicique in nomine simplex.

Some verses of this text seem to be much nearer to the mythical eulogies of Greek and Latin poetry, not only on account of the hexameters, but because there are events to be recorded. In sharp opposition to the Jewish God, Christ, by his incarnation, has an earthly history; so have the Virgin, the Apostles, and the Saints. The poet of ‘Laus Christi’ rather summarily records the most important features of Christ’s history: the nativity (with the adoration of the Magi), miracles, descent to Hell, and resurrection. He could have made a eulogy of Hercules in almost the same style.