Salve Regina, Mater misericordiae

Mother of mercy, hail, O gentle Queen!
Our life, our sweetness, and our hope, all hail!
Children of Eve,
To thee we cry from our sad banishment;

To thee we send our sighs,
Weeping and mourning in this tearful vale.
Come, then, our Advocate;
Oh, turn on us those pitying eyes of thine:

And our long exile past,
Shew us at last
Jesus, of thy pure womb the fruit divine,
O Virgin Mary, mother blest!