Et medelam ferret inde,

Hostis unde laeserat.

Crux fidelis...

Quando venit ergo sacri Plenitudo temporis, Missus est ab arce Patris Natus, orbis Conditor :
Atque ventre virginali Carne amictus prodiit.

Dulce lignum...

Vagit infans inter arcta Conditus praesepia : Membra pannis involuta Virgo mater alligat :
Et Dei manus pedesque Stricta cingit fascia.

Crux fidelis...
 

Thence the remedy procuring
Whence the fatal wound had come.

Faithful cross ...

So when now at length the fulness
Of the sacred time drew nigh,
Then the Son who moulded all things
Left His Father's throne on high.
From a Virgin's womb appearing,
Clothed in our mortality.

Sweet the wood ...

All within a lowly manger,
Lo, a tender babe He
lies!
See His gentle Virgin-
Mother
Lull to sleep His infant cries;
While the limbs of God Incarnate
Round with swathing-bands she ties.

Faithful cross ...