12/12/15
O Mary, my Mother, the Maiden, the Star,
How truly astounding and gracious you are!
To you I look fondly while climbing the slope
Your life is a treasure that fills me with hope
My Mother Inviolate and greatest of saints
Most perfect of instruments with which He paints
O Virgin of Virgins and Mother Most Pure,
You give us the hope and the strength to endure
O Mother fair and Mother kind
In you, such love and joy I find
Remain with me; I go afar
My gracious Morning Star
Behold, you’re my Mother and I am your child
So pure is your love with a heart undefiled
Your beauty is such that no one can compare
To serve as you did, I can just hope to dare
One rose and another, I offer to you
So loving a Mother, so faithful and true.
What more can I give you, whose love is most fair,
Affection most tender, its scent fills the air
O Mother fair and Mother kind
In you, such love and joy I find
Remain with me; I go afar
My gracious Morning Star
Remain with me always, O Lady of Peace
And pray that I join thee in thy heav’nly feast
My virtues and faith I now place in your care,
O Virgin Most Prudent and Mother Most Fair
O Mother fair and Mother kind
In you, such love and joy I find
Remain with me; I go afar
My gracious Morning Star
Pilgrim Poet 