The Immortal Temple

Raphael
Visitation
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Fr. Juan de Anchieta
Doncella Madre de Dios

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All things rising, all things sizing          Mary sees, sympathising     With that world of good,     Nature’s motherhood. Their magnifying of each its kind With delight calls to mind              How she did in her stored     Magnify the Lord. ... This ecstasy all through mothering earth

Tells Mary her mirth till Christ’s birth
To remember and exultation
In God who was her salvation.

Fr. Gerard Manley Hopkins