Neale speaks of its "unapproached glory." Orby Shipley seems to contend for a degree of inspiration, for, after enumerating some hymns "which are only not inspired, or which, more truly, are in their degree inspired," he goes on to say: "But beyond them all, and before them all, and above them all may, perhaps, be placed Dies Irae." Coles calls it the diamond among gems, a diamond solitary in its excellence. Daniel says of it: "Sacrae poeseos summum decus et Ecclesiae Latinae keimelion est pretiosissimum" (It is the chief glory of sacred poetry and the most precious treasure of the Latin Church). A wealth of eulogy has been pronounced upon it by hymnologists of every shade of religious conviction. Schaff, "and the most sublime of all uninspired hymns." It is a musical gem even without the music, the giant among hymns. "This marvelous hymn is the acknowledged masterpiece of Latin poetry," writes Dr. Many are the words of praise that have been said of it. The Dies Irae is that remarkable hymn used as the Sequence in Requiem Masses.
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