The beauty is proclaimed of Mount Carmel.
Here Elijah defended Israel’s faith in a living God.
There in our hearts to him we can play the minstrel.
In praise as on a natural stone quod.

Here settled the Carmelite.
A quiet contemplative life.
Prayer without respite.
Material riches cut away with a loving knife.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
The patroness of the order.
We can only marvel
At their love toward her.

But we just stand as on a mere foothill.
With our tender plodding spiritual skill.