AH 51: 305. A Septuagesima hymn in a tenth-century manuscript is so united by the iteration of _Alleluia_ that the poet felt no need of rime. Alleluia, dulce carmen, vox perennis gaudii, Alleluia laus suavis est choris cælestibus, Quod canunt Dei manentes in domo per sæcula. Alleluia læta, mater, concinis, Ierusalem, Alleluia vox tuorum civium gaudentium; Exsules nos flere cogunt Babylonis flumina.... AH 51: 52. A much simpler trochaic measure is heard in one of the most popular of medieval hymns. Found in a manuscript of the ninth century, it may well be earlier. Ave, maris stella, Dei mater alma Atque semper virgo, Felix cæli porta. Sumens illud Ave Gabrielis ore, Funda nos in pace Mutans nomen Evæ.... AH 51: 140. (3) Other Measures Sapphics, which of course exercised the skill of the learned,[18] are occasionally convincing in a hymn. Nocte surgentes vigilemus omnes, Semper in psalmis meditemur atque Viribus totis Domino canamus Dulciter hymnos, Ut pio regi pariter canentes Cum suis Sanctis mereamur aulam Ingredi cæli simul et beatam Ducere vitam. Præstet hoc nobis deitas beata Patris et nati pariterque sancti Spiritus, cuius reboatur omni Gloria mundo. AH 51: 26. One Sapphic, doubtfully ascribed to Paulus Diaconus, had currency enough to furnish later a memory stanza for the notes of the scale. UT queant laxis REsonare fibris MIra gestorum FAmuli tuorum, SOLve polluti LAbii reatum, Sancte Iohannes.... MGH, _Poet. lat. Carol._ I. 83. The striking measure of _Sancti venite_[19] is not forgotten. Felix per omnes festum mundi cardines Apostolorum præpollet alacriter Petri beati, Pauli sacratissimi, Quos Christus almo consecravit sanguine: Ecclesiarum deputavit principes.... MGH, _Poet. lat. Carol._ I. 136; AH 50: 141. The second measure of Boethius, exhibited by Bede in two poems,[20] is echoed in the _Tanquam præcipitans turbo regentes_ of Sedulius Scotus[21] and appears in a fine Assumption hymn of the ninth century. O quam glorifica luce coruscas, Stirpis Davidicæ regia proles, Sublimis residens, virgo Maria, Supra cæligenas ætheris omnes! Tu cum virgineo, mater, honore Angelorum domino pectoris aulam Sacris visceribus casta parasti; Natus hinc Deus est corpore Christus.... AH 51: 146. In a few hymns of this period the measure seems to be derived from one used twice by Prudentius.[22] En cæli rutilant lumine splendido, Testantur dominum nascere parvulum, Qui format minima et qui creat ardua; Regni sceptra tenens, est Deus atque homo.... MGH, _Poet. lat. Carol._ II. 247.