Quae maerebat et dolebat

Et tremebat, dum videbat

Nati poenas inclyti.

2. Sad and heavy stands beside him

She who once had magnified him

One—begotten, only—born;

While she sees that rich atoning,

Long the moaning, deep the groaning

Of her mother—heart forlorn.

3. Quis est homo, qui non fleret,