To her who bore you! When your infant smile
Made her home Paradise, you were her angel.
O be an angel still. She needs that smile.
So long as you are innocent, fear nothing.
No one can harm you! I am a poor girl,
Whom chance has taken from the public streets.
I have no other shield than my own virtue.
That is the charm which has protected me!
Amid a thousand perils, I have worn it
Here in my heart! It is my guardian angel!