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with the stole victorious,

Is the great King's Senate glorious,

Is the Apostolic Choir:

Heart and lips keep well in chorus,

While the pure soul's strains sonorous

To angelic hymns aspire.

These earth's highest decoration,

That shall judge each tongue and nation;

These the rock of newest grace:

Ere the world was, pre-elected,

By the Architect erected

In the Church's highest place.