LAMENT.

From the Latin of Mary Queen of Scots.

Oh blessed, my Jesu,

I’ve trusted in thee;

Oh Saviour, my Jesu,

Now liberate me.

In horrible prison

And gloom have arisen,

My sighs, oh my Jesu, incessant to thee;

But, oh on my sorrow,

Has brightened no morrow,

Yet hear me, my Jesu, and liberate me.

Oh blessed, my Jesu,

I’ve trusted in thee,

And still will I trust thee,

To liberate me.

And so, while I languish,

I cry in my anguish,

Adoring, imploring and bending the knee;

In sorrow and tremor,

Oh blessed Redeemer,

Smile on me from Heaven, and liberate me!