Mother of Christ — then, Mother of us all:
Mother of God made Man, of Man made God:
The thornless Garden, the immaculate Sod,
Whence sprang the Adam that reversed the fall.
Mother of Christ, the Body mystical,
Of us the members, as of him the head;
Of him our life, the " First-born from the dead";
Of us baptized into his burial.
Yes, Mother, we were truly born of thee
On Calvary's second Eden — thou its Eve:
Thy dolours were our birth-pangs by the tree
Whereon the Second Adam died to live —
To live in us, thy promised Seed to be.
Who then his death-wound to the snake didst give.