Hildebert, a contemporary and fellow-countryman of the Bernards, became
Archbishop of Tours in 1125. His verses number more than ten thousand.
The selection is taken from his _Address to the Three Persons of the
Holy Trinity_.
Cf. Revelation 21 and 22.
3. Auctor lucis: Genesis 1. 3. 5. lapis vivua: 1 Peter 2. 4, 6. 6. Rex
festivus: Matthew 22. 2. 12-14. Revelation 21. 4; 1 John 3. 2. 15-18.
Cf. O civitas sancta, civitas speciosa, de longinquo te saluto, ad te
clamo, te require.--Augustine, _De Spiritu et Anima_. 26. Revelation 21.
24.
The following is a portion of Neale's translation (_Mediaeval Hymns_,
pp. 35-36):
Mine be Sion's habitation,
Sion, David's calm foundation:
Built by him, light's source immortal,--
To whose streets the cross is portal:
In this city, uninvaded
Peace,--spring endless, light unfaded:
Endless breath of flowerets vernal,
Festal melody eternal.
Home, no change nor loss that fearest,
From afar my soul thou cheerest:
Thee it seeketh, thee requireth,
Thee affecteth, thee desireth.
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