Excerpt from Cantate Mariae: Meditations in Song Might of God's Mother! Creation hath bowed to it, Nature hath owned its unceasing sway; Legions of Lucifer's angels have cowed to it, The terrible army in battle array 0 earth, without measure or dysphony, Sing on in unending symphony! The light of the noon and the night shout aloud to it, The midnight moon and the dawning day' Let the riches of earth, sea, and sky, be unrolled to thee, Mother of Loveliness, Light, and Song! Though the splendours of Paradise God doth unfold to thee, Earth's beauty and grace to thee belong We bind, and we bring, and we give to thee All things in a sweet captivity, The wealth of the ends of the world is all told to thee, And all to thy majesty hasten and throng. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.