Senex puerum
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Senex puerum portabat:
puer autem senem regebat:
quem virgo peperit,
et post partum virgo permansit:
ipsum quem genuit, adoravit.
The old man carried the boy,
but the boy ruled the old man.
Whom the virgin bore,
and afterwards remained a virgin,
the very same to whom she gave birth, she worshipped.
Antiphon of the Purification
Notes
Tomás Luis de Victoria (c.1540-1611)
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