O care mi Jesu, nunc libera me!
In durâ catenâ, in miserâ poenâ desidero te!
Languendo, gemendo, et genuflectendo,
Adoro, imploro, ut liberes me!"
It may be thus paraphrased:
"In this last solemn and tremendous hour,
My Lord, my Saviour, I invoke Thy power!
In these sad pangs of anguish and of death,
Receive, O Lord, Thy suppliant's parting breath!
Before Thy hallowed cross she prostrate lies,