Ave Maria! Blessed Maid!

Composers: Music: Saint Alban (?-c251) /
                            Lyrics:
John Keble (1792-1866), 1827  (St. Alban's Tune Book, 1866)

St. Alban

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Ave Maria, blessed Maid! 

John Keble (1792-1866)

I have a score of this song I have a music notation program file of this song  (NWC, Sibelius, etc.) I have a MIDI file of this song. X X   ? St Alban     251c   1866     Ave Maria,  Blessed Maid     in 1886 'St-Alban's Tune Book' NS
I have a score of this song I have a music notation program file of this song  (NWC, Sibelius, etc.) I have a MIDI file of this song. X X   Arthur H.   Brown       1885 Ave Maria,  Blessed Maid in 1885 'The Altar Hymnal' NS
I have a score of this song I have a music notation program file of this song  (NWC, Sibelius, etc.) I have a MIDI file of this song. X X   C. J.   Ridsdale       1907 Ave Maria, Blessed maid in 1907 The new office hymn book NS

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.

 
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. 
 

Words: John Keble (1792-1866)
Music: attributed to St. Alban (St. Alban's Tune Book, 1866)
Meter: 886 D


 

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