Like the Golden Vessels of Tharsis…

Song For Our Lady’s Assumption

As the tower of David art thou, O Mary,

And in thee there is no flaw,

How beautiful and lovely art thou in the adorning,

And the odor of thy ointments

Is like the fragarance of Libanus,

Above all perfume . . . .

Like a dove brooding over swelling waters,

Like vials that pour out perfumed oil,

Like lilies distilling their fragarance,

Like the golden vessels of Tharsis,

Like the choice Libanus and the cedar tree,

Like fair tall columns of marble

Set upon bases of gold, art thou, O Mary!

Source: The Mozarabic Liturgy

Robert, Cyril. Mary Immaculate: God’s Mother and Mine. Poughkeepsie, NY: Marist Press, 1946.

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