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- Ingemisco
- from Requiem
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- tenor
- Ingemisco tamquam reus:
- Culpa rubet vultus meus:
- Supplicanti parce Deus.
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- Qui Mariam absolvisti,
- Et latronem exaudisti,
- Mihi quoque spem dedisti.
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- Preces meæ non sunt dignæ,
- sed tu bonus fac benigne,
- Ne pereni cremer igne.
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- Inter oves locum præsta,
- Et ab hædis me sequestra,
- Statuens in parte dextra.
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- Thomas of Celano
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- Ingemisco
- from Requiem
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- tenor
- I sigh for the greatness of my guilt,
- Confessing my own culpability:
- Oh God, forgive your supplicant.
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- You who forgave Mary1
- And who heard the thief
- Oh, give me hope also.
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- Mine are not worthy prayers,
- But, of your goodness, let not
- Eternal flames destroy me.
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- Place me among the sheep,
- And separate me from the goats,
- Accord me a place at your right hand.
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- Thomas of Celano tr. FHM
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- 1 Mary Magdalene, not Mary the Mother of Jesus.
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