He preserved this calmness and sweetness of temper to the farthest limit of his days. Not long before he died he said to his faithful friend, Berthold of Constance, “Do not, I say, do not ask me about this; but rather attend to what I will tell you, for in you I do not a little confide. I shall die doubtless in a very short time. I shall not live. I shall not get well.” He added that he was so “seized with an ineffable desire and delight toward that intransitory world and that eternal and immortal life,” that all things of this passing existence seemed empty and vain and dropped like motes (_flocci_) from him, in the breath of that heavenly air. And then he proceeded to detail a vision in which he fancied himself reading and rereading the Hortensius of Cicero. His mind was clear; his hopes for religion and for education were high; but all was now over and he must depart. Therefore he quietly and pathetically ends by saying, “_Taedet quidem me vivere_”—indeed it is wearisome to me to live. And thus, on September 24th, 1054, he ceased from earth—in his forty-second year, and having carried the story of the world down to the end of his own career. But his works follow him. I do most firmly believe him—and not Robert the Second—to have been the author of the _Veni Sancte Spiritus_. The first person to attribute this hymn to the King of France is Durand, (_Rationale Divinorum Officiorum_, Lib. IV.) His book treats of ceremonial observances and is among the rarest of printed volumes. The splendid copy upon vellum in the Astor Library is not only beautiful in itself, but it is extremely valuable as the _third_ specimen of typography in existence. Only two works—one of them the Bible and another the Psalter of Mainz—had been previously printed from movable types. I have personally verified the reference and its English rendering is as follows: “Notker, Abbot of St. Gall, in Germany, first composed sequences with notes of his own in the _Alleluia_. And Nicholaus the Pope [Nicholas II., 1059-1061] granted that they should be sung at masses. But Hermannus Contractus, a German, inventor of the astrolabe, composed these sequences: _Rex omnipotens_ and _Sancti Spiritus_ and _Ave Maria_ and the antiphons _Alma redemptoris mater_ and _Simon Barjona_. Peter, Bishop of Compostella, made the _Salve regina_. And the King of France, Robert by name, composed the sequence, _Veni Sancte Spiritus_ and the hymn _Chorus novae Hierusalem_.” It is hard to crowd into a paragraph more errors than are in this. Notker was _not_ Abbot of St. Gall. Innocent III. was very severe upon Udalric of St. Gall, because such a spiritual and able man had lived and died unhonored among them; a simple monk whose labors and death received no special attention in their religious year.