"Nunc dimittis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... psalms was wanting. He caught indeed, at one moment, the hymn of Saint Ambrose, the "Te lucis ante terminum," sung to a simple and rugged tune of the old plain chant, and yet the last stanza was not the same; but he lost himself afresh, and waited for the "Short Lessons" and the "Nunc Dimittis" which ...
— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans |
