Mother Heroic

Oh thou that bowest
Thy ecstatic face
Thy perfect sorrows
Are the world’s to keep
Wherefore onto
Thy knee
Come we
With a prayer
Oh thou that bowest
Thy ecstatic face
Thy perfect sorrows
Are the world’s to keep
Wherefore onto
Thy knee
Come we
With a prayer
Mother heroic
Mother glorious
Beholding in thy eye
Immortal tears
Oh thou that bowest
Thy ecstatic face
Oh…