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PREFACE.

VI

tell

them how we now, more than

of their assistance.

tery

We

ever, stand in

by the men who have assumed the

government

they have thought

danger in the

social

need

are exiled from our Monas-

to discover a

fit

and labours

life

reins of

of

Monks who

celebrate the divine mysteries of the year,

and spend

their time in endeavouring to

their

souls

and those of others

sanctify

own

in all this, our rulers have

seen such peril for our country, that they have violently torn us

from our

cells

and our

to a generous hospitality accorded us

choir.

by

Thanks

friends,

we

are enabled to write these lines from Solesmes, but

not from our dear Abbey, where resides alone, in his tomb,

under the shadow of his own loved Library

and Church, the venerated Author of the Liturgical Year.

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