9. With Heavenly Bread makes them that hunger whole; Gives Living Waters to the thirsty soul. 10. Caelestem panem dat esurientibus, De fonte vivo praebet sitientibus. 11. Alpha et omega ipse Christus Dominus Venit, venturus iudicare homines. 10. Alpha and Omega, to Whom shall bow All nations at the Doom, is with us now. Tr. John Mason Neale, _Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences_, London. Masters, 1867, p. 13. Neale omits Latin stanza 3. VII. _Ave maris stella_ 1. Ave maris stella, Dei mater alma Atque semper virgo, Felix caeli porta. 1. Hail, Sea-star we name thee, Ever-maid acclaim thee, God His Mother, Portal To the life immortal. 2. Sumens illud Ave Gabrielis ore Funda nos in pace, Mutans nomen Evae. 2. Ave was the token By the Angel spoken: Peace on earth it telleth, Eva’s name re-spelleth. 3. Solve vincla reis, Profer lumen caecis, Mala nostra pelle, Bona cuncta posce. 3. Free the worldly-minded Luminate the blinded, Every ill repressing, Win us every blessing. 4. Monstra te esse matrem, Sumat per te preces, Qui pro nobis natus Tulit esse tuus. 4. Plead, and play the Mother! He will, and no other, Born for our salvation, Hear thy supplication. 5. Virgo singularis, Inter omnes mitis, Nos culpis solutos Mites fac et castos. 5. Maiden meek and lowly, Singularly holy, Loose the sins that chain us; Sanctify, sustain us. 6. Vitam praesta puram, Iter para tutum, Ut videntes Iesum Semper collaetemur. 6. Help us live in pureness, Smooth our way with sureness, Till we also eye Thee, Jesu, ever nigh Thee. 7. Sit laus Deo Patri, Summo Christo decus, Spiritui Sancto: Tribus honor unus. 7. Doxology. Tr. G. R. Woodward VIII. _Ut queant laxis resonare fibris_ (St. John the Baptist) 1. Ut queant laxis resonare fibris Mira gestorum famuli tuorum, Solve polluti labii reatum, Sancte Ioannes. 1. In flowing measures worthily to sing The wonders which of old by thee were done, To lips unclean let Heaven remission bring, O Holy John! 2. Nuntius celso veniens Olympo, Te patri magnum fore nasciturum, Nomen et vitae seriem gerendae Ordine promit. 2. From highest Heaven a herald sent to earth Thy future greatness to thy father told; Thy name and life in order from thy birth Entire unrolled. 3. Ille promissi dubius superni, Perdidit promptae modulos loquelae, Sed reformasti genitus peremptae Organa vocis. 3. Yet doubting of the promise of his Lord His palsied tongue of language lost the power; By thee was all his faltering speech restored Thy natal hour. 4. Ventris obtruso recubans cubili, Senseras regem thalamo manentem, Hinc parens nati meritis uterque Abdita pandit.