O CHRIST, THY GUILTY PEOPLE SPARE
- All Saints -

Placare, Christe, servulis
Ascribed to Rabanus Maurus, d.856, Tr. Edward Caswall, d.1878 / Adapted from H.Whitehead

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1	O Christ, Thy guilty people spare: For, kneeling at Thy gracious throne, The Virgin Mother pours her prayer, Imploring pardon for her own.
2	Ye angels happy evermore, Who in your circles nine ascend, As ye have guarded us before, So still from harm our steps defend.
3	Ye prophets and apostles high, Behold our penitential tears, And plead for us when death is nigh And our all-seraching Judge appears.
4	Ye martyrs all, a purple band, Confessors too, a white-robed train, Oh, call us to our native land, From this our exile back again.
5	And all ye choirs of virgins chaste, Receive us to the realm above, Where hermits old from desert waste Unite to praise the God of love.

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