Your renovated race
In plentitude of grace
Dare look again unshamed upon its Maker’s Face!
Chosen to bear the Eternal Word,
In her your more than dignity restored;
In her the more than golden worth
Of Eden’s prime when Heaven was linked with earth;
Unstained by Adam’s guilty forfeiture,
In her your long corrupted flesh made pure;
For of her, flesh of flesh and bone of bone,