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…Mary fixed its ray Within the meek and maiden clay. The stars in mightier music rolled ; The sun achieved a gladder gold ; The moon less pure acclaimed the morn ; —Mary immaculate 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
…blessed light ; Her perfect face dispels the fears. She charms Her melancholy knight Up to the glad and gracious spheres. O Mary, like a pure perfume Do thou receive this failing breath, And with Thy starry lamp illume The darkling corridors of death ! Amen. T 7
…d sweet, Thy precious gift bestow ! Thy holy spouse the PARACLETE Breathe down on us below That all the chrism be complete, Thy servants pure as snow ! B 16
… II LL hail to Mary wandering Adored by shepherd and by Mage ! The fury of the ruthless king Inspires Her desert pilgrimage. O sorrow of pure eyes beneath The heavy-fringed ecstatic lids, Seeing for maiden song and wreath Sphinxes and pagan Pyramids ! O sorrow bitterer than death To leave the dear delighted land, And change the groves of Nazareth For lonely leagues of sterile sand ! To us who wander desolate In Earth’s sad wilderness do Thou Bend down Thy lips immaculate And touch and kiss the adoring brow ! Amen. A 25
… Thee. Our hopes are sacrificed At Thy pellucid shrine. We worship CHRIST ; to wed with CHRIST We take Thy vows divine. O Thou supremely pure, Cleanse Thou this feeble clay ! Thy grace endure that we endure To that mirific day ! Our virgin brows and pale The holy Crown shall gird. Who took Thy veil shall lift Thy veil And hear the final Word. T 64
…ke 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 us ! help us ! succour us By the beatific breath ! M 18
…may not run From moonlight to the self-lit sun. Darkly as in a glass we gaze And lose ourselves in pious praise. How then when risen and pure of heart In heaven we see Thee as Thou art ? O let the film of earth and sin Each day by love grow clear and thin ! O let Thy worship done aright Prepare us for the eternal Light ! Amen. A 39
…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 night, The Immaculate Light, the Immaculate Light ! Amen. A 50
…he radiance of them. The lean scourged body and the tortured brain Glow with the light of Thy celestial rain. Thou art 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