Monday, August 7, 2017

O MATER DULCIS


O MATER DULCIS 

In Nazareth, I'd peep some day,
to learn your rare unwonted way
to watch you, with your boy at play,
Dulce ridentem.

At even I'd love to linger too,
hearing old mysteries made new,
to learn true pondering from you
Dulce loquentem.

And dare I ask that it might be
my grace to feel awake in me
that love, which held thee by the tree,
Dulce dolentem?

Sister Grace RSU
America. 6 December 1924

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O Mater Dulcis - O sweet Mother
Dulce ridentem - Sweetly laughing
Dulce loquentem - Sweetly speaking
Dulce dolentem - Sweetly mourning

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