AVE MARIS STELLA: TO THE B. V. M.

Praise be to the Father given;

Praise-but praise him not alone.
Greeting, honour, triumph, even
Thanks and blessing to the Son.
To whom proceeds from both in heaven,
Be an equal homage done.

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AVE MARIS STELLA: TO THE VIRGIN MARY.

Hail, Sea-star! we bless thee,

God's Mother confess thee.

Virgin pure, immortal;
Heaven's happy portal.

Sin by woman enter'd-
Hope in thee was center'd.
Woman now has freed us;
Give us peace and heed us.

Sin repentant whiten;
Darksome hearts enlighten;
Far be evil driven;
Every good be given.

Oh, wouldst thou protect us,
Christ would not reject us.
He, the Son who chose thee,
He would not oppose thee.

Virgin, strange and holy,
Meek, and pure, and lowly;
Oh may we inherit

Thy chaste humble spirit!

May our lives be quiet,
Far from sin and riot;
Praise to Christ upsending
With thy praises blending.

Father, God, we bless thee;
Jesus, we confess thee;
Equal praise be given

The Holy Ghost in heaven.

EXULTET ORBIS: ON FESTIVALS OF APOSTLES.
Exult, thou world, exult with praise!

Ye heavens, ring back the songs we raise !
Join now ye earth, skies, stars, and all,
To greet the Apostle's festival.
Ye judges of the world, ye lights

To guide mankind its heavenward way
High plac'd on hills and beacon heights-
Oh list the vows thy suppliants pay.
Ye who can ope the gates of heaven,
Or firmly close them with a word—
Oh may your favouring help be given
To lead us upwards to the Lord.

Health, languor, ailings, all obey

Your summons still, as once on earth; Oh heal our fainting minds, we prayEncrease our strength, give sterling worth. That when this fleeting world is o'er, And Christ, the judge, shall all survey; We then may stand, with hope before His throne, and tend his joyous way.

To God the Father, and the Son,
And Holy Spirit, three in one,
Be endless glory, as before

Time was, and will be ever more.

DEUS TUORUM: ON COMMON OF MARTYRS.

O God, the lot, the crown, the gain,
Of soldiers in thy service slain,
While thus we sing thy martyr's praise,
Make us forsake our sinful ways.

This saint, esteeming worldly joys
As pleasing cheats, deceitful toys,
Shunning their false and fleeting iure,
Won heavenly joys that still endure.

He bravely ran his painful race,
And looked his torments in the face,
And, shedding forth his blood for thee,
Now lives to all eternity.

To thee, most gracious Lord, we fly,
Beseeching thee, with humble cry,
That all may be absolved from sin,
While for this Martyr triumphing.

To God, the Father, and the Son,
And Holy Spirit, three in one,
Be equal glory, equal praise,

For an eternal length of days. Amen.

ISTE CONFESSOR: ON COM. OF CONFESSORS AND BISHOPS.

This great confessor, God's most worthy servant, Whom pious nations o'er the earth are praising,* This day rejoicing rose to heaven, and conquer'd Blisses eternal.

If it be not the day of his death, say from* This day rejoicing, well deserved to conquer, High praise and honour.

Him pious, prudent, humble, modest manners,
Ever attended-ever marked for heaven:
So long as life was his-that life so truly
By him unvalu’d.

So great his merits, heaven oft suspended
Nature's fixed courses: sickness and diseases,
Weakness, and death itself, when he commanded,
Vanquish'd, obeyed him.

Therefore with choral hymns we now revere him,
Singing his merits, solemn songs upraising,
That by his prayers we may be truly succour'd,
Now and for ever.

Praise be to Him, great honour, might and glory, Him, who enthron'd in heaven sheds forth his

splendour,

Ruling the world, and all its chances swaying, Three, but One only.

JESU CORONA VIRGINUM ON COM. OF

VIRGINS.

Jesus, receive our suppliant cry,

Thou crown of pure virginity :-
Son of a virgin, who alone

Bore child nor lost her virgin zone.

Lilies bedeck thy radiant way,

For choirs of virgins round thee stray ;-
Thou glorious bridegroom who dost bless
Thy brides with endless happiness.
Which way soe'er thy courses tend,
Virgins pursue, and praise upsend;
Still speeding after thee, they raise
Sweet hymns of triumph, joy, and praise.
Humbly we beg thee, that our sense
May feel thy gracious influence;
Each noxious wish do thou controul,
Which poisons and defiles the soul.

To God the Father and the Son
And Holy Spirit, three in one,

Be honour, glory, might, and praise,
For an eternal length of days.

FORTEM VIRILIS PECTORE: COM. OF HOLY
WOMEN.

Let's praise the woman who, endued
With more than woman's fortitude,

Exalts her sanctity and name

In every place with glorious fame.