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,