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Beautiful Virgin! clothed with the sun, / Crown'd with the stars, who so the Eternal Sun / Well pleasedst that in thine his light he hid; / Love pricks me on to utter speech of thee, / And -- feeble to commence without thy aid -- / Of Him who on thy bosom rests in love.
Her I invoke who gracious still replies / To all who ask in faith, / Virgin! if ever yet / The misery of man and mortal things / To mercy moved thee, to my prayer incline; / Help me in this my strife, / Though I am but of dust, and thou heaven's radiant Queen!