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Schubert's setting
''Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. ''<br>
''Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. ''<br>
''Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.''
''Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.''
==Schubert's setting==
The words are often sung to a musical setting by [[Franz Schubert]]. Curiously, although his original song was inspired by his devotion, it was not entitled ''Ave Maria,'' but "Ellens dritter Gesang" (Ellen's third song), and was a setting for a German translation of a portion ''The Lady of the Lake,'' a long poem by [[Sir Walter Scott]]. In the original, Scott's heroine is praying to the Virgin Mary, and opens her plea with the phrase "Ave Maria," but continues in her own words:
Ave Maria! maiden mild!<br>
Listen to a maiden's prayer!<br>
Thou canst hear though from the wild,<br>
Thou canst save amid despair.<br><ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext02/llake10.txt The Lady of the Lake], Project Gutenberg etext</ref>
==Notes and references==
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