MATER CHRISTI.
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Mother of Christ—then mother of us all: Mother of God made man, of man made God:[97] The thornless garden, the immaculate sod, Whence sprang the Adam that reversed the fall. Mother of Christ the Body Mystical; Of us the members, as of him the Head: Of him our life, the first-born from the dead;[98] Of us baptized into his burial.[99] Yes, Mother, we were truly born of thee On Calvary's second Eden—thou its Eve: Thy dolors were our birth-pangs by the tree Whereon the second Adam died to live— To live in us, thy promised seed to be, Who then his death-wound to the snake didst give.