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XXIV. SINE LABE ORIGINALI CONCEPTA.
Met in a point
the circles twain
Of temporal and eternal things
Embrace, close linked. Redemption's chain
Drops thence to earth its myriad rings.
Of temporal and eternal things
Embrace, close linked. Redemption's chain
Drops thence to earth its myriad rings.
In either circle, from of old
That point of meeting stood decreed;
Twin mysteries cast in one deep mould
‘The Woman,’ and ‘the Woman's Seed.’
That point of meeting stood decreed;
Twin mysteries cast in one deep mould
‘The Woman,’ and ‘the Woman's Seed.’
Mary, long ages ere thy birth
Resplendent with Salvation's Sign
In thee a stainless hand the earth
Put forth, to meet the Hand Divine!
Resplendent with Salvation's Sign
In thee a stainless hand the earth
Put forth, to meet the Hand Divine!
The Word made Flesh; the Way; the Door;
The link that dust with Godhead blends!
Through Him the worlds their God adore:
Through thee that God to man descends.
The link that dust with Godhead blends!
Through Him the worlds their God adore:
Through thee that God to man descends.
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