A solis ortus cardine

::ad usque terrae limitem

::christum canamus principem,

::natum maria virgine.

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::{{color|green|B}}eatus auctor saeculi

::servile corpus induit,

::ut carne carnem liberans

::non perderet quod condidit.

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::{{color|red|C}}lausae parentis viscera

::caelestis intrat gratia;

::venter puellae baiulat

::secreta quae non noverat.

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::{{color|green|D}}omus pudici pectoris

::templum repente fit dei;

::intacta nesciens virum

::verbo concepit filium.

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::{{color|red|E}}nixa est puerpera

::quem gabriel praedixerat,

::quem matris alvo gestiens

::clausus ioannes senserat.

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::{{color|green|F}}oeno iacere pertulit,

::praesepe non abhorruit,

::parvoque lacte pastus est

::per quem nec ales esurit.

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::{{color|red|G}}audet chorus caelestium

::et angeli canunt deum,

::palamque fit pastoribus

::pastor, creator omnium.

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::{{color|green|H}}ostis herodes impie,

::christum venire quid times?

::non eripit mortalia,

::qui regna dat caelestia.

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::{{color|red|I}}bant magi, qua venerant

::stellam sequentes praeviam,

::lumen requirunt lumine,

::deum fatentur munere.

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::{{color|green|K}}aterva matrum personat

::conlisa deflens pignora,

::quorum tyrannus milia

::christo sacravit victimam.

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::{{color|red|L}}avacra puri gurgitis

::caelestis agnus attigit,

::peccata quae non detulit

::nos abluendo sustulit.

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::{{color|green|M}}iraculis dedit fidem

::habere se deum patrem,

::infirma sanans corpora

::et suscitans cadavera.

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::{{color|red|N}}ovum genus potentiae:

::aquae rubescunt hydriae

::vinumque iussa fundere

::mutavit unda originem.

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::{{color|green|O}}rat salutem servulo

::flexus genu centurio,

::credentis ardor plurimus

::extinxit ignes febrium.

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::{{color|red|P}}etrus per undas ambulat

::christi levatus dextera:

::natura quam negaverat

::fides paravit semitam.

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::{{color|green|Q}}uarta die iam fetidus

::vitam recepit lazarus

::mortisque liber vinculis

::factus superstes est sibi.

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::{{color|red|R}}ivos cruoris torridi

::contacta vestis obstruit,

::fletu rigante supplicis

::arent fluenta sanguinis.

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::{{color|green|S}}olutus omni corpore

::iussus repente surgere,

::suis vicissim gressibus

::aeger vehebat lectulum.

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::{{color|red|T}}unc ille iudas carnifex

::ausus magistrum tradere,

::pacem ferebat osculo,

::quam non habebat pectore.

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::{{color|green|V}}erax datur fallacibus,

::pium flagellat impius,

::crucique fixus innocens

::coniunctus est latronibus.

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::{{color|red|X}}eromyrram post sabbatum

::quaedam vehebant compares,

::quas adlocutus angelus

::vivum sepulcro non tegi.

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::{{color|green|Y}}mnis, venite, dulcibus

::omnes canamus subditum

::christi triumpho tartarum,

::qui nos redemit venditus.

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::{{color|red|Z}}elum draconis invidi

::et os leonis pessimi

::calcavit unicus dei

::seseque caelis reddidit.

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::From lands that see the sun arise,

::To earth’s remotest boundaries,

::The virgin born today we sing,

::The Son of Mary, Christ the King.

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::Blest Author of this earthly frame,

::To take a servant’s form He came,

::That liberating flesh by flesh,

::Whom He had made might live afresh.

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::In that chaste parent’s holy womb,

::Celestial grace hath found its home:

::And she, as earthly bride unknown,

::Yet call that Offspring blest her own.

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::The mansion of the modest breast

::Becomes a shrine where God shall rest:

::The pure and undefiled one

::Conceived in her womb the Son.

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::That Son, that royal Son she bore,

::Whom Gabriel’s voice had told afore:

::Whom, in his Mother yet concealed,

::The Infant Baptist had revealed.

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::The manger and the straw He bore,

::The cradle did He not abhor:

::A little milk His infant fare

::Who feedeth even each fowl of air.

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::The heavenly chorus filled the sky,

::The angels sang to God on high,

::What time to shepherds watching lone

::They made creation’s Shepherd known.

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::Why, impious Herod, vainly fear

::that Christ the Saviour cometh here?

::He takes no earthly realms away

::Who gives the crown that lasts for aye.

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::To greet His birth the Wise Men went,

::led by the star before them sent;

::called on by light, towards Light they pressed,

::and by their gifts their God confessed.

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::In holy Jordan's purest wave

::the heavenly Lamb vouchsafed to lave;

::That He, to whom was sin unknown,

::might cleanse His people from their own.

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::New miracle of power divine!

::The water reddens into wine:

::He spake the word: and poured the wave

::in other streams than nature gave.

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::From the pivot of the sun's rising

::To the farthest edge of the earth

::Let us sing to Christ our lord

::Born of the virgin Mary.

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::Blessed creator of the world

::Assuming the body of a slave,

::Freeing our flesh with his own flesh

::That what he made might not be lost.

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::A close-barred maiden's inner parts

::Were breached by the grace of heaven;

::Burdened was the maiden's womb

::With secrets that she did not know.

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::Quickly the home of her chaste breast

::Became the temple of the Lord;

::Untouched without knowledge of men,

::By the word she conceived a son.

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::She laboured and then brought forth

::The One foretold by Gabriel;

::John, still in his mother's womb,

::Sensed it, as he leapt with joy.

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::He bore with lying in the hay,

::He did not scorn the manger,

::And on a little milk He fed,

::Who let no bird in want of food.

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::The heavenly choir was glad

::And angels of God's coming sang,

::To the shepherds they did unfold

::The Shepherd and Maker of all things.

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::O Herod, you impious foe,

::Why fear the coming of Christ?

::Earthly realms he does not seize,

::The kingdom of heaven he gives.

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::The wise men journeyed towards the star

::Which led them on their coming.

::Seeking one Light with another,

::Their gifts proclaimed him God.

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::A multitude of mothers cried out,

::Weeping at their children's deaths;

::Slain by the tyrrant in thousands,

::Sacrificial victims for Christ.

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::Into the streams of pure water

::Entered the heavenly Lamb;

::Taking on Himself the sins of the world,

::With his cleansing we were absolved.

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::By miracles did he give proof

::That he had God as father;

::Healing those sick in body,

::Bringing back the dead to life.

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::Yet new kinds of powers!

::The water in the ewers turned red,

::And, when ordered to pour with wine,

::The source of the flow was changed.

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::On bended knee a centurion

::Begged for his servant's health;

::The burning ardour of his faith

::Put out the fever's flames.

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::Peter walked forward through the waves,

::Held fast by Christ's right hand.

::Where nature denied there was a way

::His faith a footpath made.

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::On his fourth malodorous day,

::Lazarus recovered his life,

::And, once freed from the shackles of death,

::Became heir unto himself.

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::Streams of flowing gore were stopped,

::With one touch to His robes;

::The running tears of the suppliant

::Dried up the torrents of blood.

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::Lifeless in all his body,

::But suddenly commanded to rise,

::A sick man could on his own again

::Carry away his bed.

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::Then that hangman Judas,

::Having dared betray his master,

::Peace did offer with a kiss,

::Which came not from his heart.

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::The truthful was betrayed to liars

::The pious was scourged by the godless,

::The untainted was nailed to the cross,

::Sharing his lot with thieves.

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::As Sabbath passed, anointing myrrh

::Was brought by women of His fellowship

::To whom an angel said: He lives,

::He lies no longer in the tomb.

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::Come let us with dulcet hymns

::Join to sing of the overthrow

::Of Tartarus by the triumph of Christ

::Who, though sold, redeemed us all.

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::The zeal of the envious serpent,

::The jaws of the fearsome lion,

::God's only son did trample down

::Then rise back into the heavens.

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