Ave Maria! Blessed Maid!
Composers: Music:
Saint Alban (?-c251) /
traditional
Lyrics: John Keble (1792-1866), 1827
(St. Alban's Tune Book, 1866)
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in 1886 'St-Alban's Tune Book' |
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| Ave Maria!
Blessed Maid! |
Source page:
Ave Maria, blessed
Maid! |
1. 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! |
2. 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 |
3. Thou wept'st meek Maiden, Mother mild,
thou wept'st upon thy sinless Child,
thy very heart was riven:
and yet, what mourning matron here
would deem thy sorrows bought too dear
by all on this side heaven! |
4. A Son that never did amiss,
that never shamed his Mother's kiss,
nor crossed her fondest prayer:
e'en from the Tree he deigned to bow
for her his agonized brow,
her, his sole earthly care. |
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5. Ave Maria! thou whose name
all but adoring love may claim,
yet may we reach thy shrine;
for he, thy Son and Savior, vows
to crown all lowly lofty brows
with love and joy like thine.
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Words: John Keble
(1792-1866)
Music: attributed to St. Alban (St. Alban's Tune Book, 1866)
Meter: 886 D |
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references, biography information. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Alban |
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A
dictionary of hymnology - edited by John
Julian (1892) p.98-99. |
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Ave Maria blessed Maid J Keble.
(BVM) From his Poem for 'The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary' st 7-?
The original poem was written on the death of his mother June 1 1823. This
fact supplies the key to the line of thought in the opening stanza:
0h Those Who delgn'st to sympathize
With all our frail and fleshly ties
Maker, yet Brother dear
Forgive the too presumptuous thought
If, calming wayward grief I sought
To gaze on Thee too near
The poem as originally written was too personal for
publication in the Christian Year, and in 1826 (dated March 9 1826)
the four concluding stanzas were omitted and those beginning in that work
"Ave Maria blessed Maid" to the end, were substituted and the poem in this
its new form was first published therein in 1827.
The original was included with a special note in his "Misc. Poems,"
1869 pp.230-33, and the cento, as a hymn, in the appendix to the Hymnal N,
2nd ed. 1864 The People's H., 1867, No.192 and others. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keble |
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