The morning star is on the riseAnd soon the dawn will fill the skies,
Foretelling of the coming Sun
Whose light will shine on everyone.
The Sun of justice, Christ, true Light,
And Mary, grace's dawning bright,
And Anna, reddening the sky,
Have caused the night of Law to fly.
O mother Anna, fruitful root,
From you came your salvation's shoot,
For you brought forth the flow'ring rod
That bore for us the Christ of God.
Christ's mother's mother, by the grace
Your daughter's birth brought to our race,
And by her merits and her prayer
May we her favors come to share.
O Jesus, Virgin-born, to You
All glory is forever due.
To Father and the Spirit, praise
Be sung through everlasting days.
Trans. c. 2009 Kathleen Pluth. All rights reserved.
1 comment:
This is a beautiful translation. We have a special devotion to St Anne in this house, as my wife (and her mother) studied at St Anne's College, Oxford, and it was at the same college that I defended my doctoral thesis (on Latin hymns!) in May. We have an icon of St Anne & the Virgin painted by an iconographer in Mystras, & although it is now too late to do so on the feast itself, we shall sing your hymn in front of it tomorrow.
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