It is only left for us to lay the _Salve regina_ side by side with the _Veni Sancte_. A man who wrote upon metre ought to possess some excellence in the art of which he wrote, and these pieces placed together display a graceful and ingenious versification which is not at all usual in that century. It is not claimed that either Robert or Hermann wrote other hymns in the identical stanza form of the _Veni Sancte_. Therefore nothing is available for direct comparison. But as to the spirit of each there can be no debate. Robert never composed anything else like the _Veni Sancte_, and it certainly seems as if Hermann did compose a sequence which bears a passing resemblance; and which I have endeavored to translate with its occasional rhymes and assonances: Salve regina, mater misericordiae Vita, dulcedo et spes nostra, salve. Ad te clamamus exules filii Hevae. Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle. Eia ergo advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte Et Jesum benedictum fructum ventris tui nobis post hoc exilium ostende, O clemens, O pia, O dulcis virgo Maria. Hail O queen, mother of pitifulness! Life and delight and our confidence, hail! To thee we exiles, children of Eve, are crying. To thee we aspire, groaning and moaning in this the vale of our sorrow. Lo, thou therefore, our advocate, turn upon us those pitiful eyes of thine, And after this exile show us Jesus, the blessed fruit of thy womb, O merciful, O pious, O sweet Virgin Maria. This is another of his sequences, the _Rex regum Dei agne_, found by Brander among the antiquities of St. Gall: King of kings, Lamb of God, mighty Lion of Judah, The death of sin by the merit of the cross and the life of justice; giving the fruit of the tree of life for the taste of wisdom; the medicine of grace for the loss of glory, Since thy blood restrained the might of the sword of flame, opening the garden of paradise, the seed of obedience, the medicine of grace. This day is illustrious to the Lord; peace is on the earth, lightning to the shades below and light to the saints above; the day of the double baptism of law and gospel. Christ is the passover to man; while the old passes the new arises; rejoice my heart, freed from ferment, full of the bread unleavened. Since the enemy are overwhelmed, with stained door-posts eat the sacrifice on the paschal night, at home, with the bitter herb of the field, Let your loins be girt and your shoes bound on, have the staff in the hand, and eat the head with the legs and the purtenance thereof.