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| “HAIL! Lady Mary!” said Gabriel: | |
| Sing all the world, and all the world: | |
| “God sends me now good news to tell.” | |
| “And what is the news, O Gabriel?” | |
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| “Lady Mary, God gives you grace”; | 5 |
| Sing all the world, and all the world: | |
| “For a Child you shall bear within a space, | |
| And look on God to His very face.” | |
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| “Nay, Gabriel, how may this thing be?” | |
| Sing all the world, and all the world: | 10 |
| “Since there’s never a man that knoweth me,” | |
| Said Gabriel, “Sooth, and you shall see.” | |
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| The Lady Mary, she bowed her head; | |
| Sing all the world, and all the world: | |
| Nor ever an answer more she said, | 15 |
| Till all things were accomplishèd. | |
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| For the Lady Mary, she bare her Son: | |
| Sing all the world, and all the world: | |
| When the day’s full course at length was run, | |
| God’s Self was born for her Little One. | 20 |
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| Then the Lady Mary, she wept and spake; | |
| Sing all the world, and all the world: | |
| “I have borne my Child for the world’s sake, | |
| And the cruel world His life will take!” | |
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| But the Lady Mary, she laughed and said, | 25 |
| Sing all the world, and all the world: | |
| “My Child shall rise again from the dead, | |
| Lord of all by His great Godhead!” | |
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| Now, Lady Mary, we pray you say, | |
| Sing all the world, and all the world: | 30 |
| Some gracious thing to your Son that day, | |
| When we, poor creatures, pass away. | |
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| Yea, Lady Mary, Mother of God, | |
| Save us from sin’s rod! | |
| Lady Mary, Mother of Grace, | 35 |
| Bend on us your sweet face! | |
| O Lady Mary, bring us at length | |
By strength of Jesus to Jesus’ strength!
Amen. | |
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