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Rh Stabat Mater, is not improbable, for, according to the chronicle of Saint Bertin, he was a aint, a poet, and a muician:

The tranlation which is here given is from the Lyra Germanica of Catherine Winkworth. That work profees to be tranlated from the German; but its verion of the is a finer tranlation than any that profees to be from the Latin.

The only alteration which has been made in the text is the firt word of the Englih verion. As there was no reaon for rendering the Latin verb by the Englih interjection "O," it is preumed that this was an unintended error of the uually faithful and crupulous tranlator.