Holy Queen! We bend before thee,\nQueen of purity divine!\nMake us love thee, we implore thee,\nMake us truly to be thine.\n2. Thou by faith the gates unfolding\nOf the kingdom in the skies,\nHast to us, by faith beholding,\nShown the land of Paradise.\n3. Thou, when deepest night infernal\nHad for ages shrouded man,\nGavest us that light eternal,\nPromised since the world began.\n87\n4. God in thee hath shower’d plenty\nOn the hungry and the weak;\nSending back the mighty empty,\nSetting upon high the meek.\n5. Thine the province to deliver\nSouls that deep in bondage lie;\nThine to crush, and crush for ever,\nLife-destroying heresy.\n6. Thine to show that earthly pleasures,\nAll the world’s enchanting bloom,\nAre outrivall’d by the treasures\nOf the glorious world to come.\n7. Teach, O teach us, Holy Mother!\nHow to conquer every sin;\nHow to love and help each other;\nHow the prize of life to win.\n8. Thou, to whom a Child was given\nGreater than the sons of men,\nComing down from highest heaven\nTo create the world again.\n9. Oh, by that almighty maker,\nWhom thyself a virgin bore!\nOh, by thy Supreme Creator,\nLink’d with thee for evermore.\n1 0. By the hope thy name inspires:\nBy our doom reversed through thee!\nHelp us, Queen of Angel-choirs!\nTo a blest eternity!