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The Church Fathers · c. 425–450
The Easter Song
Carmen Paschale
Sedulius
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What it is
The gospel story retold in five books of Virgilian hexameters, with the miracles of Christ set against the wonders of the Old Testament.
Why it lasted
The most widely read Christian poem of the Middle Ages after Prudentius, and a school text for a thousand years.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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