Yellow Nineties 2.0 The Dial, Volume III.—1893 <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <edition> <date>2020</date> </edition> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>DIALV3_19po</idno> <publisher>Yellow Nineties 2.0</publisher> <pubPlace>Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities</pubPlace> <address> <addrLine>English Department</addrLine> <addrLine>350 Victoria Street,</addrLine> <addrLine>Toronto ON,</addrLine> <addrLine>M5B 2K3</addrLine> <addrLine>Canada</addrLine> </address> <availability> <p>Usable according to the Creative Commons License <ref target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike</ref>.</p> </availability> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblStruct> <monogr> <editor>Charles Ricketts</editor> <editor>Charles Shannon</editor> <author>John Gray</author> <title>A Hymn Translated From the Italian of Saint Francis of Assisi. Published by The Editors in the Vale Chelsea London 1893 Gray, John. "A Hymn Translated From the Italian of Saint Francis of Assisi." The Dial vol. 3, 1893, pp. 31-32. Dial Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2019-2020. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2020. https://1890s.ca/dialv3-gray-hymn/

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<emph rend="bold"><emph rend="indent3">A HYMN TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI.</emph></emph> Love setteth me a-burning. When my new Spouse had won me; My piteous state discerning, Had set His ring upon me: The conqueror’s prize returning, Love’s knife had all undone me, All my heart broke with yearning. Love setteth me a-burning. My heart was broke asunder: Earthward my body sprawling, The arrow of Love’s wonder From out the crossbow falling, Like to a shaft of thunder Made war of peace, enthralling My life for passion’s plunder. Love setteth me a-burning. I die of very sweetness. Yet be thou not astounded. That lance of Love’s completeness So sorrowfully wounded! Oh, broad the iron’s meetness! Not one arm’s length, a hundred Has pierced me with its fleetness. Love setteth me a-burning. Then were the lances scattered The ballister was flinging; And aye the blows which battered Upon my shield were ringing. What could protect me, tattered, Before that engine sinking? So was I wholly shattered. Love setteth me a-burning. Assailed with such instruction That all my bulwarks bevelled,* Well nigh was I destruction And shamefully dishevelled. Still hear my sorrow’s fiction: Anew a crossbow levelled Vouchsafed me new affliction. Love setteth me a-burning.

   * Dr. Swift.

31Such Such perils did it vomit, Great stones with metal weighted; And every missile from it With pounds a thousand freighted. Plummet on awful plummet, Hail unenumerated, Urged with an aim consummate. Love setteth me a-burning. None missed; and nought defended My breast from their unerring. To earth I fell, distended, No pulse within me stirring: No longer I pretended To meet the blows recurring; I lay like one expended. Love setteth me a-burning. Not dead, but with a vernal Surpassing joy made splendid; Revived from my heart’s kernel, With strength and purpose blended, I followed those eternal Pathways which surely ended Within the lists supernal. Love setteth me a-burning. Then my new forces verging, In helm and harness sightly, All His dominion scourging, On Christ I warred right knightly. Great skill against Him urging, I grappled with Him tightly, The dastard in me purging. Love setteth me a-burning. My wounds avenged, we plighted Our troth of truce and leisure For Love’s sake sorely slighted; Love lavished without measure. To Christ at length united, Made fit to bear its treasure My heart is warmed and lighted. Love setteth me a-burning.

JOHN GRAY

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