Living Vine

From nothing did our Father world create
By Word He spoke, and all of it was done;
And when we sinned He did not hesitate
To send to us His One Begotten Son–

Who with His Word forgave our sin and healed
Our pride with His humility, our cure,
And crushed that Serpent ‘neath His Mother’s heel
With nature from her made by Father pure.

On night before His death He gave to us
His Mother’s nature new in bread and wine
With Word He spoke–created new our dust-
Forever grafted to His Living Vine,