The Word whom earth and sea and sky adore and laud and magnify, whose might they show, whose praise they tell, in Mary's body deigned to dwell. How blessed that Mother, in whose shrine the world's Creator, Lord divine, whose hand contains the earth and sky, once deigned, as in his ark, to lie. Blest in the message Gabriel brought, blest by the work the Spirit wrought; more blest to bring to human birth the long-desired of all the earth. Lord Jesus, Virgin-born, to thee eternal praise and glory be, whom with the Father we adore and Holy Spirit everrmore.