Oh thou that bowest thy ecstatic face
thy perfect sorrows are the world's to keep
Wherefore onto thy knee
come weep
with a prayer
Oh thou that bowest thy ecstatic face
thy perfect sorrows are the world's to keep
Wherefore onto thy knee
come weep
with a prayer
Mother Heroic
Mother Glorious
Beholding in thy eye
immortal tears
Oh thou that bowest thy ecstatic face
Oh...