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…ORA III Pro Gente Anglicana I N great cathedral cities, In cloisters old and dim, Wherever worth or wit is, We raise the choral hymn. To GOD’S eternal Mother We lift our hearts of flame ; We join with one another To bless Her holy name. II O hear us, blessed Mary ! Thy graces send as dew, As kisses fond and faery Our spirits to renew ! O bid our sinful nation, The broken from the rod, By Thine initiation Soar subtly up to GOD ! I 66
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AMPHORA XIII ARY, Mother of our GOD, Hear our faint ecstatic prayer ! Kindle Spirit in the clod ! Kindle hope in our despair ! Be His saving mercy spilt Like a fountain on our sin ! Match His Godhead with our guilt ! Light the love of GOD within ! O majestic ! O Divine ! O most merciful and pure ! Let our spirits at Thy shrine Humbled, gladden and endure ! Help the weakness of our sight Blind before Thy radiant face ! Bring us to Thy full delight By the ardour of Thy grace ! Darkling doors and dangerous In the ways of life and death :— Cleanse …
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AMPHORA VI O seek, O my soul, thy veridical home In the palace of GOD where the work as the will is ! There are wonderful lilies afloat in the foam, And Mary is throned in the midst of the lilies. Go seek, O my soul, in the sorrowful sea, The Cross where GOD’S agony culminates, closes ! The roses are heaped till they cover the tree, And Mary is throned in the midst of the roses. Go take, O my soul, thy poor heart that has bled To pallor and death for thine evil behaviour ! The heart of the SAVIOUR redeems it to red, And Mary is throned in the h…
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AMPHORA III E praise thee, blessed maid of GOD, That art the spirit in the sod. Thou art the bird within the bower, And Thou the honey in the flower ! Thou art the moon in Egypt’s night ; The shade from Afric’s blasting light ! In all the world of ill we bow To the one good, and that is Thou. For blazing in Thy blessed womb Glitters the CHRIST, a star of doom To cast the stars of evil kings Into the blind abyss of things. Hail, Mary, hail ! Thou didst conceive The Holy Child whom we believe. Draw Thou our loyal spirits hence In rapture and in r…
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…is born. Rejoice, O children of the earth, At your salvation brought to birth ! This is the perfect period. Mary is born that shall bear GOD. Amen. T 3
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AMPHORA IX Matins OW when the sun uplifts his rim Above the sea, let us rejoice ! Exalt GOD’S Mother in the hymn With an united voice ! We gladly wake to toil and praise, Since these our purpose speed By walking humbly in Thy ways To worship Thee indeed. Let all the life and love and light Of earth and sky and sea Soar in one flame’s surpassing might To Thee—to Thee—to Thee ! Amen. N 53
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…med To greet Thee, Mary maid, assumed. All earth and heaven compose Thy throne ; All saints and maids and martyrs own The joyous gift of GOD to Thee, And Angels quire Thy sanctity. Abase, my head, to this Divine Decree, and worship Mary’s shrine Wherefrom the healing springs upstart :— Lift up, mine heart ! Lift up, mine heart ! Amen. L 30
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…. Thine is the sympathetic balm That eases from Life’s bruising rod ; And Thine the meek eternal calm That brings our souls in tune with GOD Amen. O 79
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… seven lamps of mystic fire Shine, and the spirits seven ! In this religious gloom Invoke the light divine As, Mary, in Thy blessed womb GOD made the Daystar shine. This common fruit of earth Be made the Body of grace Even as the flesh by Jesu’s birth Was holy for a space. All things by heavenly power To that redemption come Equal before Thee in the hour Of joy or martyrdom. Amen. A 58
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AMPHORA O plumed and puissant couriers ! O Angels clothed and crowned with light ! O mild and matchless ministers Of GOD, how deep the silence stirs At this our choral might ! Hail to the Virgin ! Hail ! the streams Are gathered in the starry river ; The incense column subtly steams Up past the palaces of dreams :— To Mary, Hail for ever ! Hail to the Virgin, Hail ! the sea Is one ; the stars divide and pale Before Thy single ecstasy Of light, O moon of majesty ! Hail to Thee ! Hail ! All hail ! Amen. 44
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…ery glad keen hour ! The rays of praise outglitter and outrun The candid brilliance of the choral sun. Hear us, O Mary, blessed Queen of GOD ! Bless Thou the wreath as Thou hast blessed the rod ! Endow us from Thy star-embattled coast With the perfections of the HOLY GHOST ! Amen. O 70
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… breast the Child Divine Drank in the starry milk and wine. Three magians Chaldean Have bowed their royal knees Before the Galilean, The GOD of stars and seas, And tasted all the fervent grace That shone from Mary’s maiden face. T 56
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…and of vigilance, We pierce beyond to brilliance. For all the blessed blood that poured Out of Thine heart at sorrow’s sword Is borne in GOD’s cherubic cars About the sky to make us stars. We in the world of woe who stray Lift up our hearts to Thee and pray : Turn all our pain to virgin might, And all our sorrow into light ! Amen. T 29
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AMPHORA VI Good Friday T the foot of the Cross is the Mother of God, And Her tears are like rain to enliven the sod, While the Blood of the LORD from His Body that runs Is the heat of the summer, the fire of its suns. In the darkness and fear of the torturing hours, The Mother brings life in the strength of Her showers ; The Son with the fire of His Passion withdrawn Enkindles the night to the life of the Dawn. In the cup of the world, as pure water and wine, His sorrow is mingled and mixed into Thine, For a liquor to heal us the children of ni…
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…Y SPIRIT, shadow her !) There are three Kings upon the road. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She hath thrice blest the Name of GOD. (O HOLY SPIRIT, shadow her !) There stands her star above the sky. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She hath thrice blest the TRINITY. (O HOLY SPIRIT, shadow her !) Her joyful ardour hath sufficed. (Bring gold and frankincense and myrrh !) She is delivered of the CHRIST. (The angels come to worship Her !) Amen. T 63
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…the secret of the pure keen pleasure Whose fountain springs from the abyss of pain. Thee do we praise in many a merry measure Who art of GOD most high the single treasure. He hath ten jewels in His holy House ; All these be mystic, clear and luminous ; But only Thou art worthy of the throne, O Mother and O daughter and O spouse Of Him that reigns above, triune, alone, And joins Thine equal splendour with His own ! Amen. T 49
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…ngs ! O shield me in your span, ye everlasting wings ! I kneel at Mary’s shrine ; the incense fumes ascend To bring my spirit through to GOD’S appointed end. Though in the valley of the shade of death I be, I fear not ; for Thy rod and staff they comfort me. I imprecate the aid of Mary, Mother mild ! The asp and dragon bow before Her Holy Child. The heathen did uprise ; the folk of fear and doubt. Great bulls of Bashan did encompass me about. The lions roared for prey ; the eagles screamed for food : All these were stilled before thy crownèd Mo…