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Ecce quod natura

from Christmas in Medieval England by Blue Heron

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lyrics

Ecce, quod natura
Mutat sua jura:
Virgo parit pura
Dei filium.

Ecce novum gaudium,
Ecce novum mirum:
Virgo parit filium
Que non novit virum.
Que non novit virum,
Sed ut pirus pirum,
Gleba fert saphirum,
Rosa lilium.

Mundum Deus flebilem
Videns in ruina,
Florem delectabilem
Produxit de spina;
Produxit de spina
Virgoque regina,
Mundi medecina,
Salus gencium.

Nequivit divinitas
Plus humiliari,
Nec nostra fragilitas
Magis exaltari:
Magis exaltari
Quam celo collocari
Deoque equari
Per conjugium.

Translation:
Behold, Nature
changes her laws:
a pure virgin gives birth
to the son of God.

Behold, a new joy,
behold, a new wonder:
a virgin gives birth to a son,
she who knew not man.
She knew not man,
but bore as the pear tree bears a pear,
a clod of earth a sapphire,
the rose a lily.

God, seeing the wretched world
in ruin,
brought forth a delightful flower
from a thorn;
from a thorn she brought forth,
virgin and queen,
healing to the world
and salvation of the peoples.

Divinity could not have been
more humbled,
nor our fragility
more exalted:
more exalted
than to be raised to Heaven
and made equal to God
through this union.

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from Christmas in Medieval England, released October 9, 2015
Selden MS

Singers
Pamel Dellal, Owen McIntosh, Michael Barrett

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Winner of the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music (the first non-European group to win the award), Blue Heron (Scott Metcalfe, dir.) has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as “one of the Boston music community’s indispensables” and hailed by Alex Ross in The New Yorker for the “expressive intensity” of its interpretations. ... more

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