# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Matins
# `votive=C11` live query, 2026-08 -- "Quem terra, pontus, ǽthera," the
# classic Common-of-the-BVM Matins hymn.
id: matins-hymn-common-of-the-bvm
text:
  la: |
    Quem terra, pontus, ǽthera
    Colunt, adórant, prædicant,
    Trinam regéntem máchinam,
    Claustrum Maríæ bájulat.

    Cui luna, sol, et ómnia
    Desérviunt per témpora,
    Perfúsa cæli grátia,
    Gestant puéllæ víscera.

    Beáta Mater múnere,
    Cujus supérnus ártifex
    Mundum pugíllo cóntinens,
    Ventris sub arca clausus est.

    Beáta cæli núntio,
    Fœcúnda sancto Spíritu,
    Desiderátus géntibus,
    Cujus per alvum fusus est.

    Glória tibi, Dómine,
    Qui natus es de Vírgine,
    Cum Patre, et Sancto Spíritu,
    In sempitérna sǽcula. Amen.
  en: |
    The God whom earth, and sea, and sky
    Adore, and laud, and magnify,
    Who o'er their threefold fabric reigns,
    The Virgin's spotless womb contains.

    The God, whose will by moon and sun
    And all things in due course is done,
    Is borne upon a maiden's breast,
    By fullest heavenly grace possest.

    How blest that mother, in whose shrine
    The great artificer divine,
    Whose hand contains the earth and sky,
    Vouchsafed, as in his ark, to lie.

    Blest, in the message Gabriel brought;
    Blest, by the work the Spirit wrought;
    From whom the great desire of earth
    Took human flesh and human birth.

    All honour, praise and glory be,
    O Jesu, Virgin-Born, to thee;
    All glory, as is ever meet,
    To Father, and to Paraclete. Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified
