MARY, VIRGIN AND MOTHER
By E. Seton
Oh, Virgin Joy of all the world art thou,In whose white, fragrant steps the countless throngOn souls elect doth follow God with song:Creation’s Queen, whose bright and holy browThe multitude of Saints, like stars, endowWith changeful splendors, flashing far and strong:The Maid unshadow’d by the primal wrong:God’s Lily, chosen in His shrine to bow.All these thy glories are, and still a graceMore high, more dread, and yet more sweet and fair,Doth bind thy royal brows, O Mary blest.God called thee Mother; yea, His sacred faceThe tender likeness of thine own doth wear.And thou art ours—we trust Him for the rest.
Oh, Virgin Joy of all the world art thou,In whose white, fragrant steps the countless throngOn souls elect doth follow God with song:Creation’s Queen, whose bright and holy browThe multitude of Saints, like stars, endowWith changeful splendors, flashing far and strong:The Maid unshadow’d by the primal wrong:God’s Lily, chosen in His shrine to bow.All these thy glories are, and still a graceMore high, more dread, and yet more sweet and fair,Doth bind thy royal brows, O Mary blest.God called thee Mother; yea, His sacred faceThe tender likeness of thine own doth wear.And thou art ours—we trust Him for the rest.
Oh, Virgin Joy of all the world art thou,In whose white, fragrant steps the countless throngOn souls elect doth follow God with song:Creation’s Queen, whose bright and holy browThe multitude of Saints, like stars, endowWith changeful splendors, flashing far and strong:The Maid unshadow’d by the primal wrong:God’s Lily, chosen in His shrine to bow.
Oh, Virgin Joy of all the world art thou,
In whose white, fragrant steps the countless throng
On souls elect doth follow God with song:
Creation’s Queen, whose bright and holy brow
The multitude of Saints, like stars, endow
With changeful splendors, flashing far and strong:
The Maid unshadow’d by the primal wrong:
God’s Lily, chosen in His shrine to bow.
All these thy glories are, and still a graceMore high, more dread, and yet more sweet and fair,Doth bind thy royal brows, O Mary blest.God called thee Mother; yea, His sacred faceThe tender likeness of thine own doth wear.And thou art ours—we trust Him for the rest.
All these thy glories are, and still a grace
More high, more dread, and yet more sweet and fair,
Doth bind thy royal brows, O Mary blest.
God called thee Mother; yea, His sacred face
The tender likeness of thine own doth wear.
And thou art ours—we trust Him for the rest.