Sarah de Nordwall, whom I had the great pleasure of meeting earlier this month, sends this gorgeous versification of St. Augustine’s commentary on Psalm 44:3, which she in turn received from an Augustinian monk. Augustine interprets the Psalm as describing Christ:
He is beautiful in heaven;
beautiful on earth;
beautiful in the womb;
beautiful in his parent’s arms;
beautiful in his miracles;
beautiful under the scourge;
beautiful when inviting to life … beautiful when laying down his life;
beautiful in taking it up again;
beautiful on the cross;
beautiful in the sepulcher;
beautiful in heaven.