Paradiso: Canto 33 Dante Alighieri (Ft. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Paradiso: Canto XXXIII

"Thou Virgin Mother, daughter of thy Son,
   Humble and high beyond all other creature,
   The limit fixed of the eternal counsel,

Thou art the one who such nobility
   To human nature gave, that its Creator
   Did not disdain to make himself its creature.

Within thy womb rekindled was the love,
   By heat of which in the eternal peace
   After such wise this flower has germinated.

Here unto us thou art a noonday torch
   Of charity, and below there among mortals
   Thou art the living fountain-head of hope.

Lady, thou art so great, and so prevailing,
   That he who wishes grace, nor runs to thee,
   His aspirations without wings would fly.

Not only thy benignity gives succour
   To him who asketh it, but oftentimes
   Forerunneth of its own accord the asking.