SINE LABE CONCEPTA
Predestined second Eve. For this conceiv’d
Immaculate—not lower than the first.
Chosen beginner in the loss reversed,
And mediatress in the gain achieved,
When, the new angel, as the old, believed,
Thy hearkening should bless whom Eve’s had curst.
And therefore we, whose bondage thou hast burst,
Grateful for our inheritance retrieved,
Must deem this jewel in thy diadem
The brightest—hailing thee alone “all fair,”
Nor ever soil’d with the original stain:
Alone, save Him whose heart-blood bought the gem
With peerless grace preventive none might share—
Redemption’s perfect end, all else tho’ vain.