7. With what answer shall I meet him, By what advocate entreat him, When the just may scarcely greet him? 8. King of majesty appalling, Who dost save the elect from falling, Save me! on thy pity calling. 9. Be thou mindful, Lord most lowly, That for me thou diedst solely; Leave me not to perish wholly! 10. Seeking me thy love outwore thee, And the cross, my ransom, bore thee; Let not this seem light before thee! 11. Righteous Judge of my condition, Grant me, for my sins, remission Ere the day which ends contrition. 12. In my guilt for pity yearning, With my shame my face is burning— Spare me, Lord, to thee returning! 13. Mary’s sin thou hast remitted And the dying thief acquitted; To my heart this hope is fitted. 14. Poorly are my prayers ascending But do thou, in mercy bending, Leave me not to flames unending! 15. Give me with thy sheep a station Far from goats in separation— On the right my habitation. 16. When the wicked meet conviction Doomed to fires of sharp affliction, Call me forth with benediction. 17. Prone and suppliant I sorrow, Ashes for my heart I borrow; Guard me on that awful morrow! 18. O, that day so full of weeping When, in dust no longer sleeping, Man must face his worst behavior! Therefore spare me, God and Saviour! CHAPTER XXIV. THOMAS AQUINAS AND JOHN BONAVENTURA. In Southern Italy, about midway between Rome and Naples, the road which connects these two cities passes near the site of the ancient city of Aquinum. It was a stronghold of the Volscians, although not mentioned in the account of their wars with the Romans. As a Roman municipality it rose to greater importance than the other cities of the district, and became the birthplace of the satirist Juvenal and other eminent men. But in the seventh century it was destroyed by the Lombards, and the site never re-occupied. What were left of its inhabitants found another site, more capable of defence in those wild days, and built Aquino on a mountain slope. It runs along the cliff in a single street, like our own Mauch Chunk, and the remains of its oldest buildings show that its mediaeval architects drew freely upon still earlier structures for their materials.