I-18 Audi coelum, verba mea, plena desiderio et perfusa gaudio. (Audio!) Dic, quaeso, mihi: quae est ista, quae consurgens ut aurora rutilat, ut benedicam? (Dicam!) Dic nam ista pulchra ut luna, electa ut sol, replet laetitia terras, coelos, maria. (Maria!) Maria virgo illa dulcis, praedicata de propheta Ezechiel, porta orientalis. (Talis!) Illa sacra et felix porta: per quam mors fuit expulsa, introducta autem vita. (Ita!) Quae semper tutum est medium inter homines et Deum, pro culpis remedium. (Medium!) Omnes hanc ergo sequamur, qua cum gratia mereamur vitam aeternam. Consequamur. (Sequamur!) Praestet nobis Deus, Pater hoc et Filius et Mater, cujus nomen invocamus dulce miseris solamen. (Amen!) Benedicta es, virgo Maria, in saeculorum saecula.
I-18 Hear, O heaven, my words, full of longing and suffused with joy. (I hear!) I beseech you, tell me: who is she that rises up, bright as the dawn, and I shall bless her. (I shall tell you!) Tell me, for she, lovely as the moon and glorious as the sun, fills with gladness the earth, heavens and seas. (Mary!) That sweet virgin Mary, foretold by the prophet Ezekiel, that eastern gate. (The same!) That sacred and joyful portal through which death was expelled and life renewed. (Yes!) Who is always a trusted mediator between God and man for the forgiveness of sins. (A mediator!) Let us all therefore follow her, through whom we may with grace deserve to attain life everlasting. Let us follow! (We follow!) May God, the Father, and the Son, and the Mother whose sweet name we invoke, grant solace to the afflicted. (Amen!) Blessed art thou, Virgin Mary, for ever and ever.
I-19 Speciosa facta es et suavis in deliciis tuis, sancta Dei Genetrix.
I-19 Thou art made fair and sweet in thy delights, Holy Mother of God.
I-20 Lauda, Jerusalem, Dominum: lauda Deum tuum, Sion. Quoniam confortavit seras portarum tuarum: benedixit filiis tuis in te. Qui posuit fines tuos pacem: et adipe frumenti satiat te.
I-20 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee. He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
36