Tr. Robert Bridges, from The Yattendon Hymnal (edited by Robert Bridges & H. Ellis Wooldridge) by permission of the Clarendon Press, Oxford.
II. Vexilla regis prodeunt
1. Vexilla regis prodeunt,
Fulget crucis mysterium,
Quo carne carnis conditor
Suspensus est patibulo.
1. The banners of the king advance,
The cross with mystery doth flame,
And from the tree the Flesh of flesh,
Word Incarnate, hangs in shame.