Guest Post: A Papist song for today's feast

From AmP reader (and classmate) Domenic:

Alas, this year, the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter (today) falls on a Sunday and has been trumped by the 7th Sunday of Tempus per Annum. In honour and thanksgiving for gift of St. Peter's commission and his successors, especially Pope Benedict XVI, I recommend singing or reading the composition below. The author, Cardinal Wiseman, oversaw the restoration of the hierarchy in England in the mid-nineteenth century, and had much first hand experience of the opposite sentiment to what his song expresses.

Full in the panting heart of Rome
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Full in the panting heart of Rome
Beneath the apostle's crowning dome.
From pilgrim's lips that kiss the ground,
Breathes in all tongues one only sound:

GOD BLESS OUR POPE, GOD BLESS OUR POPE,
GOD BLESS OUR POPE, THE GREAT THE GOOD!

The golden roof, the marble walls,
The Vatican's majestic halls,
The note redoubles, till it fills
With echoes sweet the seven hills

GOD BLESS OUR POPE, GOD BLESS OUR POPE,
GOD BLESS OUR POPE, THE GREAT THE GOOD!

Then surging through each hallowed gate,
Where martyrs glory, in peace await
It sweeps beyond the solemn plain,
Peals over Alps, across the main.

GOD BLESS OUR POPE, GOD BLESS OUR POPE,
GOD BLESS OUR POPE, THE GREAT THE GOOD!

From torrid south to frozen north,
The wave harmonious stretches forth,
Yet strikes no chord more true to Rome's,
Than rings within our hearts and homes.

GOD BLESS OUR POPE, GOD BLESS OUR POPE,
GOD BLESS OUR POPE, THE GREAT THE GOOD!

- Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman, Archbishop of Westminster (1802 - 1865)