Illumined by

God’s clearest brightness,

O Virgin Mary bright,

with the Word of God

infused,

your womb then flourished at

the entrance of

God’s Spirit—

within you

he breathed,

within drew out

the loss of Eve,

a purity cut off and silenced

by that disease

contracted at

the Devil’s sly persuasion.

You wondrously held hid within yourself

a flesh kept undefiled

according to God’s Reason—

for when the Son of God

within your womb was blossomed,

divinity most holy

brought him forth

to abrogate the laws of flesh

establishéd by Eve,

for he was joined to whole integrity

in flesh and womb divine.