By Pavel Chichikov
Not alone to shepherds or in caves
No burning cherub or Creator's slave
But one of us, Mater Creatoris
Not alone to victims or to innocents
You also come to help impenitents
And prisoners, Mater Salvatoris
Not alone to save the faithful weak
But those who crucify you also seek
To hear them, Consolatrix afflictorum
Not alone to heal infected hope
And those condemned to bullet or to rope
But also killers, Salus infirmorum
Gentle and forgiving the unloved
We hear you in the pitying of doves
And follow you, Regina Angelorum
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