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Rex tremends majestatis! Qui salvandos salvas gratis, Salva me, fons pietatis!
Thereat my senses left me, and my sweet lamb was not much better; for she bent to and fro like a reed, and stretching her bound hands towards heaven, she once more cried out: Rex tremendae majestatis! Qui salvandos salvas gratis, Salva me, fons pietatis!
The choir was singing the "Dies Iræ," and their voices thundered forth: Rex tremendæ majestatis, Qui salvandos salvas gratis, Salva me, fons pietatis! Fain would the abbot have closed his ears, and, hoping to stifle the remorseful pangs that seized upon his very vitals with the sharpness of serpents' teeth, he strove to dwell upon the frequent and severe acts of penance he had performed.
Here the emphatic me is preserved, but in neither version is the true meaning of salvandos even hinted at, and in both we miss the tenderness of the fons pietatis, with which the tremenda majestas is balanced and softened.
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