
Mens immota manet.[1]
The mind remains unmoved.
On conte que l’aimant a la proprieté
De mouvoir & tirer le fer qui se presente,
De conduire une nef sur la mer undoyante:
Car tousjours vers le Polle on le void arresté.
Que pleust ores à Dieu que tousjours nostre esprit
Fust tourné vers le ciel, & que sans inconstance
Chacun y reposast sa ferme confiance,
Attendant le secours par un seul Jesus-Christ.
Seigneur donne la paix, & nous chasse les maux
Par l’excellent pouvoir de ta seule parolle,
Et fais qu’aussi subit vers toy nostre ame vole,
Comme un cerf alteré subit cerche les eaux.
1. Vergil, Aeneid, 4.449, but proverbial in the sixteenth century.
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