- O bona patria, lumina sobria
te speculantur;
Ad tua nomina sobria lumina
collacrimantur.
- Est tua mentio pectoris unctio,
cura doloris,
Concipientibus æthera mentibus
ignis amoris.
- Tu locus unicus illeque cœlicus
es paradisus.
Non tibi lacrima, sed placidissima
gaudia, risus.
- Lux tua mors crucis atque caro
ducis est crucifixi;
Laus, benedictio, conjubilatio per-
Sonat Ipsi.
- Est ibi consita laurus, et insita
cedrus hysopo;
Sunt radiantia jaspide mœnia,
clara pyropo.
- Hinc tibi sardius, inde topazius,
hinc amethystus.
Est tua fabrica contio cœlica,
gemmaque Christus.
- Tu sine litore, tu sine tempore
fons, modo rivus;
Dulce bonis sapis, estque tibi lapis
undique vivus.
- Est tibi laurea, dos datur aurea,
sponsa decora,
Primaque principis oscula su-
scipis, inspicis ora.
| - For thee, O dear, dear country,
Mine eyes their vigils keep;
For very love, bevholding
Thy happy name, they weep.
- The mention of thy glory
Is unction to the breast,
And medicine in sickness,
And love, and life, and rest.
- O one, O only mansion!
O Paradise of joy!
Where tears are ever banished,
And smiles have no alloy;
- The Cross is all thy splendor;
The Crucified thy praise;
His laud and benediction
Thy ransomed people raise.
- With jaspers glow thy bulwarks,
Thy streets with emeralds blaze;
The sardius and the topaz
Unite in thee their rays;
- Thine ageless walls are bonded
With amethyst unpriced;
Thy Saints build up its fabric,
The corner-stone is Christ.
- Thou hast no shore, fair ocean!
Thou hast no time, bright day!
Dear fountain of refreshment
To pilgrims far away!
- Upon the Rock of Ages
They raise thy holy tower;
Thine is the victor’s laurel,
And thine the golden dower.
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