HYMN OF THE SORROWS OF MARY TRANSLATED BY ABRAHAM COLES, M. D., PH. D. With Photograph NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1866 KD29016 HARVARD Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of New Jersey. T PROEM. HE celebrated Paffion Hymn, the STABAT Mater, is so conftantly associated with the Dies Iræ that to mention the one is to suggeft the other. It has been thought, therefore, that a Tranflation of this Prosa likewise, made as literal as poffible, might be acceptable to some readers, and form a not unsuitable appendage to the present volume, by supplying a ready means of comparison between two productions, about which, down to this day even, there has been a difference of opinion as to which should be awarded the palm of superiority. It is hardly neceffary to say that reference is here had to their lyrical merits only; for while the devout Proteftant finds nothing in the Judgment Hymn to jar with his own religious convictions, he is necessarily offended in the Stabat Mater by a devotion he |