Diēs Iræ
.A famous mediæval hymn on the last judgment, probably the composition of Thomas of Celaʹno, a native of Abruzzi, who died in 1255. Sir Walter Scott has introduced the former part of it into his Lay of the Last Minstrel.
“Dies iræ, dies illa,
Solvet sæclum in favilla,
Testē David cum Sibylla.”
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