Mother of Beauty and Delight

The rose in its perfection pales

Before Thee Mother of Radiance,

Describing Thee expression fails

Our voices stilled in reverence.

Time cannot contain Thy love

Nor the heavens hold Thy force,

One with all yet far above

Describing for the stars their course

And man his sacred destiny.

Mother of beauty and delight

Heal our human enmity

Free us from the net of night,

Forge in us the strength to hold

God's descent, our lives remould.