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Recordare

by Giuseppe Verdi

on Verdi: Requiem (2009)

Recordare, Jesu pie,
quod sum causa tuae viae;
ne me perdas illa die.
Quaerens me sedisti lassus,
redemisti crucem passus;
tantus labor non sit cassuc.
Juste judex ultionis,
donum fac remissionis,
ante diem rationis.

Think, kind Jesus, my salvation
Caused thy wondrous incarnation;
Leave me not to reprobation.
Faint and wary thou has sought me,
on the cross of suffering bought me,
Shall such grace be vainly brought me?
Righteous judge, for sin's pollution,
Grant thy gift of absolution,
Ere that day of retribution.