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"Rorate Coeli desuper, et nubes pluant Justum". / "Aperiatur Terra, et germinet Salvatorem".
No sudden thing of glory and fear / Was the Lord's coming; but the dear / Slow Nature's days followed each other / To form the Saviour from his Mother / -- One of the children of the year.
The earth, the rain, received the trust, / -- The sun and dews, to frame the Just. / He drew his daily life from these, / According to his own decrees / Who makes man from the fertile dust.
Sweet summer and the winter wild, / These brought him forth, the Undefiled. / The happy Springs renewed again / His daily bread, the growing grain, / The food and raiment of the Child.