other translations - Poulenc
Poulenc: O Magnum Mysterium
Francis Poulenc
from "Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noël" (1952)
O magnum mysterium
et admirabile sacramentum
ut animalia viderent Dominum natum
jacentem in praesepio.
Beata Virgo cujus viscera
meruerunt portare
Dominum Christum.
O great mystery
and wonderful sacrament
that even the animals saw the newborn Lord
lying in a manger.
Blessed Virgin, whose womb
was worthy to bear
our Lord Christ.