"O CLEMENS, O PIA, O DULCIS...”

"O CLEMENS, O PIA, O DULCIS...”[1]

Sweeter than honey and the honey-comb

the Fruit you gave us for our daily bread;

and when, like little ones, we cry for sweets,

we need but reach to you and we are fed.

Then honey-sweet, O Mother, cling to us

as golden beauty to the Son-bright air,

that we may leave your love on all we touch -

the traces of your sweetness everywhere!

Sister M Philip, CSC

Sign.  August 1956

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[1] O clement, O loving, O sweet (Virgin Mary)