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First Line: These mysteries do point to three more great
Last Line: Of being daughter, mother, spouse of god.


These mysteries do point to three more great,
On the reverse of this your circling crown,
All pouring their full shower of graces down,
The glorious Trinity in union met.

Daughter, and mother, and the spouse of God,
Alike of kin, to that most blessed trine,
Of persons, yet in union (one) divine.
How are thy gifts, and graces blazed abroad!

Most holy, and pure Virgin, blessed Maid,
Sweet Tree of life, King David's strength and tower,
The House of gold, the Gate of heaven's power,
The Morning star, whose light our fall hath stayed,

Great Queen of Queens, most mild, most meek, most wise,
Most venerable, cause of all our joy;
Whose cheerful look our sadness doth destroy,
And art the spotless mirror to man's eyes.

The seat of sapience, the most lovely mother,
And most to be admired of thy sex,
Who mad'st us happy all, in thy reflex,
By bringing forth God's only Son, no other.

Thou Throne of glory, beauteous as the moon,
The rosy morning, or the rising sun,
Who like a giant hastes his course to run,
Till he hath reached his two-fold point of noon,

How are thy gifts and graces blazed abroad,
Through all the lines of this circumference,
To imprint in all purged hearts this virgin sense,
Of being daughter, mother, spouse of God.





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