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Word Play on Ascension Day

Since  a reader seeks elucidation of the text of an Ascension Office Hymn which I quoted recently, I here republish the account I gave last year.

The chairman of the coetus charged in the 1960s with revising the Breviary Hymns, Dom Anselmo Lentini, was convinced that ‘word-play’ [“nimius lusus verborum”, as he put it] was out of place in texts for modern use. So he disliked two superb lines in

Praise the Lord

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