Classic Hymns and Their Stories
Puzzle 71 · Songs for the Church Year · Page 99 in print
Pentecost Songs
The Whitsuntide section prints two English adaptations of the same Latin hymn: one by John Cosin and another by John Dryden.
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The words
Bianco
The Italian writer credited for the hymn.
Charity
The virtue pictured as an outward garment.
Comforter
The divine title used in its prayer.
Creator
The divine title used to address the Spirit in hymn 154.
Dove
The image in Keble’s Pentecost hymn.
Flame
The image for divine love in the hymn.
John Cosin
The bishop whose adaptation appears as hymn 153.
Littledale
Richard Frederick Littledale, its English translator.
Lowliness
The humility pictured as inner clothing.
Paraclete
A title for the Holy Spirit.
Siena
The place attached to his name.
Sinai
The mountain contrasted with Pentecost in that hymn.
Terce
The daily service named above hymn 154.
Tongues
The sign described in hymn 151.
Unction
The anointing described in Cosin’s hymn.