Clara diei gaudiis

Spotless Anna! Juda’s glory!
Through the Church from East to West,
Every tongue proclaims thy praises,
Holy Mary’s Mother blest!

Saintly Kings and priestly Sires
Blended in thy sacred line;
Thou in virtue, all before thee
Didst excel by grace divine.

Link’d in bonds of purest wedlock,
Thine it was for us to bear,
By the favour of High Heaven,
Our eternal Virgin Star.

From thy stem in beauty budded
Ancient Jesse’s mystic rod;
Earth from thee receiv’d the Mother
Of th’ Almighty Son of God.

All the human race benighted
In the depths of darkness lay;
When in Anne, it saw the dawning
Of the long-expected day.

Honour, glory, virtue, merit,
Be to Thee, O Virgin’s Son!
With the Father and the Spirit,
While eternal ages run.