Perfect Image

O Mary, Image, beautiful, complete,
Of Trinity in heaven whose clear light
Reflects in you, who Holy Spirit greet,
Consent to bear God’s Son in earth’s dark night.
A perfect human self put back at last
In Naz’reth’s Garden through Gethsemane
By Son who took from you what He had cast
From future, to replace that Past Lost Tree.
Eternity’s New Tree grew once in time
In Galilee and bore its perfect fruit
In Bethlehem, beginning heaven’s rhyme
Of Jesse’s Son sprung from New Eden’s Root.
O Mother Mary, Trinity’s clear light
Reflects in you to shine in earth’s dark night.