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Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis


O lily flower of sweet odour,
In whose chaste bower our saviour
With great honour conceived is:
Ora pro nobis.

Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis.

O mother mild, maid undefiled,
That we so wild be not exiled
From thy sweet child and all his:
Ora pro nobis.

Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis.

That Christ us send grace to amend
Our time misspent or we hence wend;
And at our end to grant us bliss:
Ora pro nobis.

Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis.

James Ryan, c. 1492
translation of the Latin:

[Sancta Maria,  ora pro nobis
Holy Mary, pray for us]
bower = enclosure, as in a garden
wend = turn back, change direction