Note 16 — JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
Reading edition
"Sanctus fortis, Sanctus Deus," etc. This is the ecstasy of faith, hope, and love. It is three Acts in one, rapidly and forcibly expressed. The energy and strength of self-forgetfulness fail when he, still in the body, sighs:
"I can no more; for now it comes again,"—
Note the musical effect of
"And, crueller still, A fierce and restless fright begins to fill The mansion of my soul. And, worse and worse, Some bodily form of ill."
The pauses after "ill" express horror and weakness,—
