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HEROD (Continued) Seraphim: “Consolatrix afflictorum.”

 I hear again from out the singing spheres A mother's scream, and all her whispered prayer Stabbed by her anguish, faint beneath her fears, I hide once more upon that far earth there.

Cherubim: “Regina Martyrum.”

 Draw close the starry curtains of the night Lest Heaven fade and I forget to pray; Here God is love, we hate nor suffer fight, What Herod lives upon the earth to-day?

Cherubim and Seraphim: Alleluia. [34]