Ave Maria

Ave Maria

Ave Maria Mother mild

Oh listen to a woman's prayer

For you can hear me through the wild

And you can save me from despair

Keep me from despair

And safe I sleep beneath your core

Though banished outcast, and reviled

Oh mother hear a woman's prayer

Oh mother hear your loving child Ave Maria Ave Maria Undefiled

The coldest night we share together

Will seem with down of eider piled

If your protection covers there

If you are there

The darkness and the heavy air

Shall breathe of perfume if you have smiled

Oh mother hear a woman's prayer

Oh mother hear your loving child Ave Maria