- Christmas Eve
Christmas hath a darkness
Brighter than the blazing moon,
Christmas hath a chillness
Warmer than the heat of June,
Christmas hath a beauty
Lovelier than the world can show:
For Christmas bringeth Jesus,
Brought for us so low.
- Pilgrim Jesus
Jesus! Christus! Jesus! Natus!
In the manger of my body
Leaps the tiny child, and his breath
Is the word - the dance of God.
Corpus! Beatus! Peregrinus! Natus!
In the ocean of my head
The steadfast ship rides tide and storm
- Tune Thy Music
Tune thy Music to thy heart,
Sing thy joy with thanks, and so thy sorrow:
Though Devotion needs not Art,
Sometimes of the poor the rich may borrow.
Strive not yet for curious ways:
Concord pleaseth more, the less ʼtis strained
Zeal affects not outward praise,
- Victimae paschali laudes
Victimae paschali laudes immolent Christiani.
Agnus redemit oves:
Christus innocens
Patri reconciliavit peccatores.
Mors et vita duello conflixere mirando:
dux vitae mortuus, regnat vivus.
Dic nobis Maria, quid vidisti in via?
Sepulchrum Christi viventis,