[21] (p. 32.) "Go forth, O Christian soul, from this world." These words begin the prayer of the priest, recited while the soul is departing from the body. It is paraphrased in English by the Cardinal. [22] "_I went to sleep_," etc. The soul of Gerontius has left the body: [Illustration] [23] (p. 35.) "Another marvel." According to the teaching of the Catholic Church, each soul is given at its birth in charge of a Guardian Angel. It is this angel that sings, "My work is done." "Alleluia" is from two Hebrew words united by a hyphen. It means "Praise the Lord." St. John in the Apocalypse says that he heard the angels singing it in heaven. It occurs in the last five Psalms and in Tobias. [24] "_My work is done_, My task is o'er," is expressed with a joyous movement,-- [Illustration] [25] Compare the thought in "Hamlet"--Act II, Scene II.--"What a piece of work is man!" [26] (p. 41.) When the soul has departed, the priest says the prayer beginning "Subvenite, Sancti Dei; occurrite Angeli Domini," etc. ("Come to his assistance, ye saints of God," etc.). [27] "_Low-born clods_," etc. The most marked change comes here. The solemnity and sweetness of the soul and the angel's music--their _leit-motif_--is easily discernible. Now come dissonances and discords,--the rapidity of jangled cymbals struck in scorn. The phrase "chucked down" has been censured as "inelegant." Its meaning and sound accord exactly with the spirit of the demoniac chorus. [28] (p. 49.) "Extension," "the position of parts outside parts." See p. 366, General Metaphysics, by John Rickaby, S.J., Manuals of Catholic Philosophy. [29] (p. 51.) St. Francis d'Assisi. In 1224, while on Mount Alvernus, keeping a fast of forty days in honor of St. Michael, a seraph appeared and marked the hands, feet, and right side of St. Francis with the five wounds of Our Lord's Passion. [30] "_Praise to the Holiest in the height._" A movement associated by English readers with the hymn particularly: [Illustration] or [Illustration] [31] (p. 54.) "Dreed," from the old English verb "dreogan," to suffer. [32] "_Angel of the Agony._" Note the solemn and pathetic rhythm effect. [33] "_Take me away_, and in the lowest deep, There let me be," etc. The catalexis--pause--is finely used here: [Illustration] [34] (p. 64.) This appeal is paraphrased by the author from the Psalms. The words at the end are translated from the Lesser Doxology: "Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio et nunc, et in sÊcula sÊculorum. Amen." The Greater Doxology begins: "Gloria in excelsis Deo." "Doxology" is from two Greek words meaning "praise" and a "discourse." [35] "_Softly and gently, dearly ransomed soul_, In my most loving arms I now enfold thee," etc. [Illustration]