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Rh  Child of Mary, hear our cry! Thou wert little once as we; Hear the loving Litany We, thy children, sing to thee.

By the joy of Simeon blest, When he clasp'd thee to his breast; By the widow'd Anna's song, Pour'd amid the wondering throng,— Child of Mary, &c.

By thine angel-bidden flight Into Egypt in the night; By thy home at Herod's death In despised Nazareth,— Child of Mary, &c.

By thy tender mother's fears, By her many sighs and tears, As she sought thee night and day, Turning back upon her way,— Child of Mary, &c.

By her wond'ring love and awe, In the Temple when she saw Thee, her child, so young and fair, Wiser than the wisest there,— Child of Mary, &c.

 

By the blood that flow'd from thee In thy bitter agony, By the scourge so meekly borne, By thy purple robe of scorn,— 