Poema sacrum, in diem purificationis, augustissimae Dei genitricis Mariae

Learn justice, being warned, and do not spurn the laws. Learn justice, persist in sacred warnings, and obey the holy commands of true Zion. The Divine Mother now offers an example to all. Thus God will one day bless you in an eternal seat. And to you, holy Elder, second to none in piety, whose name is Simeon, filled with the heavenly Spirit, what was your feeling, or what kind of pleasure was in your heart, when at last you beheld the Boy promised for a long time, the King of men and powerful Ruler of those above, whose birth was sought so often and so many times? Then I think that joy and truly new delights soothed your breast, with the child born under a happy star, by which your holy and pious eyes saw the holy Offspring. Giving the longed-for embraces, I think you planted joyful kisses, struck simultaneously by love for him. O you, too happy and too blessed! For there was hardly any sight happier than that. Now I return to the Mother, who is the greatest of mothers and the only one most chaste among female births, and I lift up her various praises, the love of her piety, and her virginal grace above the golden stars. For just as a shining Sapphire glows in illustrious gold, and shines more and more from the gold, no differently does the nourishing Mother excel all other mothers in the honor of virtue and the virginal choir. I speak of good deeds surpassing mortal strength,