Alma redemptoris mater,
que pervia celi
Porta manes et stella maris,
succure cadenti
Surgere qui curat populo.
Tu que genuisti,
Natura mirante,
tuum sanctum genitorem
Virgo prius ac posterius
Gabrielis ab ore
Sumens illud ave,
peccatorum miserere.
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Nuturing mother of the Redeemer,
who ever remainest
Portal of heaven and star of the sea,
succour the fallen
People who struggle to rise
Thou who hast given birth,
While nature marveled,
to thine own sacred creator,
Maiden before and after,
from Gabriel’s lips,
Hearing that fateful “Hail”,
have mercy on sinners.
—Transl. Joseph Weinberg
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