PANGE, lingua, gloriosi

Lauream certaminis,

Et super crucis trophaeo Dic triumphum nobilem : Qualiter Redemptor orbis

Immolatus vicerit.

Crux fidelis ...

De parentis protoplasti

Fraude Factor condolens,

Quando pomi noxialis In necem morsu ruit :

Ipse lignum tunc notavit, Damna ligni ut solveret.

Dulce lignum...

Hoc opus nostrae salutis

Ordo depoposcerat :

Multiformis proditoris

Ars ut artem falleret :

SING, my tongue, the Savior's glory;
Tell His triumph far and wide;

Tell aloud the famous story
Of His Body crucified;

How upon the cross a Victim,
Vanquishing in death, He died.

Faithful cross ...

Eating of the tree forbidden,
Man had sunk in Satan's
snare,
When his pitying Creator

Did this second tree prepare,
Destined, many ages later,
That first evil to repair.

Sweet the wood ...

Such the order God ap pointed
When for sin He would atone;
To the serpent thus opposing
Schemes yet deeper than
his own: