,
Melt the frozen, warm the chill,
Guide the steps that go astray.

_Neale's Translation_.

_THE TUNE._

The metre and six-line stanza, being uniform with those of "Rock of
Ages," have tempted some to borrow "Toplady" for this ancient hymn, but
Hastings' tune would refuse to sing other words; and, besides, the
alternate rhymes would mar the euphony. Not unsuitable in spirit are
several existing tunes of the right measure--like "Nassau" or "St.
Athanasius"--but in truth the "Veni, Sancte Spiritus" in English waits
for its perfect setting. Dr. Ray Palmer's paraphrase of it in
sixes-and-fours, to fit "Olivet,"--

Come, Holy Ghost in love, etc.

--is objectionable both because the word Ghost is an archaism in
Christian worship and more especially because Dr. Palmer's altered
version usurps the place of his own hymn. "Olivet" with "My faith looks
up to Thee" makes as inviolable a case of psalmodic monogamy as
"Toplady" with "Rock of Ages."

ST. FULBERT.

"_Chori Cantores Hierusalem Novae._"

St. Fulbert's hymn is a worthy companion of Perronet's "Coronation"--if,
indeed, it was not its original prompter--as King Robert's great litany
was the mother song of Watts' "Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove;" and
the countless other sacred lyrics beginning with similar words. As the
translation stands in the Church of England, there are six stanzas now
sung, though in America but four appear, and not in the same sequence.
The first four of the six in their regular succession are as follows:

Ye choirs of New Jerusalem,
Your sweetest notes employ,
The Paschal victory to hymn
In strains of holy joy.

For Judah's Lion bursts His chains,
Crushing the serpent's head;
And cries aloud, through death's domains
To wake the imprisoned dead.

Devouring depths of hell their prey
At His command restore;
His ransomed hosts pursue their way
Where Jesus goes before.

Triumphant in His glory now,
To Him all power is given;
To Him in one communion bow
All saints in earth and heaven.

Bishop Fulbert, known in the Roman and in the Protestant ritualistic
churches as St. Fulbert of Chartres, was a man of brilliant and
versatile mind, and one of the most eminent prelates of his time. He was
a contemporary of Robert II, and his intimate friend, continuing so
after the Pope (Gregory V.) excommunicated the king fo