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11,10,11,10,8,8
QeoV wn eirhnhV.
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Father of Peace, and GOD of Consolation! The Angel of the Counsel dost Thou send To herald peace, to manifest Salvation, Thy Light to pour, Thy knowledge to extend; Whence, with the morning's earliest rays, Lover of men! Thy Name we praise. | |
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'Midst Caesar's subjects Thou, at his decreeing, Obey'dst and was enrolled: our mortal race, To sin and Satan slave, from bondage freeing, Our poverty in all points didst embrace: And by that Union didst combine The earthly with the All-Divine. | |
Lo! Mary, as the world's long day was waning, Incarnate Deity conceived and bore; Virgin in birth, and after birth, remaining And man to GOD is reconciled once more: Wherefore in faith her name we bless, And Mother of our GOD confess. |
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141 |
10,10,10,10,10,10
splagcnwn Iwnan.
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As Jonah, issuing from his three days' tomb, At length was cast, uninjured, on the earth; So, from the Virgin's unpolluted womb The Incarnate WORD, That dwelt there, had His Birth: For He, Who knew no taint of mortal stain, Willed that His Mother spotless should remain. | |
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CHRIST comes, Incarnate GOD, amongst us now, Begotten of the FATHER ere the day: And He, to Whom the sinless legions bow, Lies cradled, 'midst unconscious beasts on hay: And, by His homely swaddling-bands girt in, Looses the many fetters of our sin. | |
Now the New Child of Adam's race draws nigh, To us, the faithful, given: This, this is He That shall the Father of Eternity, The Angel of the Mighty Counsel, be: This the eternal GOD, by Whose strong hands The fabric of the world supported stands. |