The God whom earth and sea and sky...

The God whom earth and sea and sky

Adore and laud and magnify,

Whose might they own, whose praise they swell,

In Mary's womb vouchsafed to dwell.

The Lord whom sun and moon obey,

Whom all things serve from day to day,

Was by the Holy Ghost conceived

Of her who through his grace believed.

How blessed that Mother, in whose shrine

The world's Creator, Lord divine,

Whose hand contains the earth and sky,

Once deigned, as in his ark, to lie.

Blessed in the message Gabriel brought,

Blessed by the work the Spirit wrought;

From whom the great Desire of earth

Took human flesh and human birth.

O Lord, the Virgin-born, to thee

Eternal praise and glory be,

Whom with the Father we adore

And Holy Ghost for evermore.

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