Virgo salutiferi, genitrix
intacta Tonantis,
Unicaque undosi stella
benigna maris,
Quam rerum pater, ut lapso
succurreret orbi,
Nondum distincto jusserat
esse chaos,
Jesseque e sacro nasci de
sanguine gentis,
Et matrem statuit
virginitate frui.
Tu potis es prime scelus
expurgare parentis,
Humanumque deo conciliare
genus,
Lacte tuo qui te qui
cuncta elementa crearat
Pavisti, vilis culmine
tecta case.
Nunc, celi regina tuis pro
gentibus ora,
Quosque tuus juvit, filius,
ipsa juva. Alleluya.
—Ercole Strozzi
Cantus firmus:
Ave Maria gratia plena,
dominus tecum,
benedicta tu in mulieribus.
Alleluya.
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Salvation-bearing maiden,
inviolate mother of the Thunderer,
lone kind star of
the stormy sea,
whom the Father of all things,
to aid a fallen world,
ordained, even before he had
ordered chaos into distinct being,
to be born from the
holy blood of Jesse,
and to be a mother
in possession of virginity:
You are able to purge the sin
of our first mother,
and reconcile God
with humankind.
With your milk you fed him who
created you and all the elements,
covered by the roof of a
humble dwelling.
Now, O queen of heaven,
pray for your people;
those your son aided, do you
yourself aid also. Alleluia.
Hail, Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with you.
You are blessed among women.
Alleluia.
—trans. Lawrence Rosenwald
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