_Dies Iræ_ (Vol. ii., p. 72. 105.).--Will you allow me to enter my
protest against the terms "extremely beautiful and magnificent," applied
by your respectable correspondents to the _Dies Iræ_, which, I confess,
I think not deserving any such praise either for its poetry or its
piety. The first triplet is the best, though I am not sure that even the
merit of that be not its _jingle_, in which King David and the Sybil are
strangely enough brought together to testify of the day of judgment.
Some of the triplets appear to me very poor, and hardly above macaronic
Latin.