Ave Maria – Celine Dion

Ave Maria – Celine Dion 

The Ave Maria was composed in about 1825 by Franz Schubert (1797-1828) when he was twenty-eight years old and filled with devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
It was written for voice and piano and first Published in 1826 as Op 52 no 6. The words most commonly used with Schubert’s music are not the words that the composer originally set to music.

▶ Ave Maria – Celine Dion 

Ave Mariaˆ! maiden mild!
Listen to a maiden’s prayer!
Thou canst hear though from the wild;
Thou canst save amid despair.
Safe may we sleep beneath thy care,
Though banish’d, outcast and reviled –
Maiden! hear a maiden’s prayer;
Mother, hear a suppliant child!
Ave′ Maria!

′Ave Maria! undefiled!
The flinty couch we now must share
Shall seem with down of eider piled,
If thy protection hover there.
The murky cavern’s heavy air
Shall breathe of balm if thou hast smiled;
Then, Maiden! hear a maiden’s prayer,
Mother, list a suppliant child!
Ave′ Maria

Ave′ Maria stainless styled.
Foul demons of the earth and air,
From this their wonted haunt exiled,
Shall flee before thy presence fair.
We bow us to our lot of care,
Beneath thy guidance reconciled;
Hear for a maid a maiden’s prayer,
And for a father hear a child!
Ave′ Maria!

Storck’s translation used by Schubert

Ave′ Maria! Jungfrau mild,
Erhöre einer Jungfrau Flehen,

Aus diesem Felsen starr und wild
Soll mein Gebet zu dir hin wehen.

Wir schlafen sicher bis zum Morgen,
Ob Menschen noch so grausam sind.

O Jungfrau, sieh der Jungfrau Sorgen,
O Mutter, hör ein bittend Kind!

Ave Maria!

Ave′ Maria! Unbefleckt!
Wenn wir auf diesen Fels hinsinken

Zum Schlaf, und uns dein Schutz bedeckt
Wird weich der harte Fels uns dünken.

Du lächelst, Rosendüfte wehen
In dieser dumpfen Felsenkluft,

O Mutter, höre Kindes Flehen,
O Jungfrau, eine Jungfrau ruft!

Ave Maria!

Ave′ Maria! Reine Magd!
Der Erde und der Luft Dämonen,

Von deines Auges Huld verjagt,
Sie können hier nicht bei uns wohnen,

Wir woll’n uns still dem Schicksal beugen,
Da uns dein heil’ger Trost anweht;

Der Jungfrau wolle hold dich neigen,
Dem Kind, das für den Vater fleht.

Ave Maria′!

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• Be Thou My Vision O Lord of My Heart

• Rock of Ages Hymn 
• He Leadeth Me by His Own Hand
• There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood
• Farther Along We’ll Know More About it
• In The Garden – I come to the Garden Alone

Ave Maria – Celine Dion

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