Religion
Salve arca foederis
Translated by Edward Caswall (1849) · From Lyra Catholica (1849)
Hail, Solomon’s throne
Pure Ark of the Law!
Fair Rainbow! and Bush
Which the Patriarch saw!
Hail, Gedeon’s Fleece!
Hail, blossoming Rod!
Samson’s, sweet Honeycomb!
Portal of God!
Well fitting it was
That a Son so divine
Should preserve from all touch
Of Original Sin;
Nor suffer by smallest
Defect to be stain’d
That Mother, whom He
For Himself had ordain’d.
Codex Note
Latin: Salve arca foederis. Printed in Caswall's Lyra Catholica (1849) among the Hymns from the Office of the Immaculate Conception.
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Anonymous Latin Hymns. “Salve arca foederis.” Translated by Edward Caswall. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-latin-hymns/208/.
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Anonymous Latin Hymns. “Salve arca foederis.” Translated by Edward Caswall. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-latin-hymns/208/.
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