- Quem terra, pontus, sidera
Colunt, adorant, prædecant
Trinam regentem machinam,
Claustrum Mariæ bajulat.
- Cui luna, sol, et omnia
Deserviunt per tempora,
Perfusa cœli gratia,
Gestant puellæ viscera.
- Beata Mater munere,
Cujus supernus artifex
Mundum pugillo continens,
Ventris sub arca clausus est.
- Beata cœli nuntio,
Fœcunda sancto Spiritu,
Desideratus gentibus,
Cujus per alvum fusus est.
- Jesu tibi sit gloria,
Qui natus es de Virgine,
Cum Patre, et almo Spiritu
In sempiterna sæcula.
| - The God whom earth, and sea, and sky
Adore, and laud, and magnify,
Who o’er their threefold fabric reigns,
The Virgin’s spotless womb contains.
- The God, whose will by moon and sun
And all things in due course is done,
Is borne upon a Maiden’s breast,
By fullest heavenly grace possest,
- How blest that Mother, in whose shrine
The great Artificer Divine,
Whose hand contains the earth and sky,
Vouchsafed, as in His ark, to lie.
- Blest, in the message Gabriel brought;
Blest, by the work the Spirit wrought;
From whom the Great Desire of earth
Took human flesh and human birth.
- All honor, laud, and glory be,
O Jesu, Virgin-born to Thee;
All glory, as is ever meet,
To Father and to Paraclete.
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