Ave Maria
Ave Maria! blessed Maid! Lily of Eden's fragrant shade! Who can express the love that nurtured thee, so pure and sweet, making thy heart a shelter meet for Jesus' holy Dove! Ave Maria! Mother blest, to whom, caressing and caressed, clings the eternal Child; favored beyond Archangels' dream, when first on thee with tendered gleam thy new-born Savior smiled. Thou wept'st meek Maiden, Mother mild., thou wept'st upon
