Looking for a Marian Hymn

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I remember a Marian hymn from 50 years back or so with the refrain “You are the highest honor of our race, Mary”. I am not referring to the modern psalm response but a hymn. I cannot find it anywhere. Does anyone know of this hymn? Thank you.
 
Perhaps Owen Alstott’s “You are the Highest Honor of our Race”? I remember a LOT of his music but I cannot say I remember this one particularly, not compared to so many of his others, but the time frame would be about right, and there are a LOT of his hymns that were popular for a year or two but then disappeared forever. . .
 
How about this hymn?

Virgin full of grace
Purest of our race
 
Thank you. That is the one that shows up. It is a psalm refrain. Unfortunately it isn’t the one I’m looking for. Thank you for your help.
 
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Thanks. I appreciate it but that isn’t he one I’m looking for. I guess it is a psalm refrain.
 
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I can’t find the lyrics but how about Fr. Lucien Deiss, “You are the Honor”? It is listed as one of the Marian hymns composed just after Vatican 2 which would be the right time frame.
 
You are the highest honor of our race, Mary
The lyrics sound familiar…Is it from the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary?

http://www.liturgies.net/Liturgies/Catholic/LittleOffice.htm

I did a CTRL+F to do a search for “race” & it was showing 15 occurrences of the word, with at least 4 of them appearing as such:

“…you are the fairest honor of our race…”

But I don’t have a melody if that’s what you need… :S 😦

It also occurs here with 2 occurrences appearing as “…you are the fairest honor of our race…”:

http://www.liturgies.net/Liturgies/Catholic/loh/mary/morningprayer.htm

Same here:

http://www.liturgies.net/saints/mary/immaculateheart/morningprayer.htm

Is this it?


Other possibilities:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=you+are+the+fairest+honor+of+our+race
 
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Yes, but current mental block. I’ll post if it comes to me, but I can hear the melody. 🎶
 
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