# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Vespers
# live query, 2029-12-28, the same clean date already used for lauds-capitulum-holy-innocents.yml.
id: vespers-hymn-holy-innocents
text:
  la: |
    Salvéte, flores Mártyrum,
    Quos lucis ipso in límine
    Christi insecútor sústulit,
    Ceu turbo nascéntes rosas.

    Vos prima Christi víctima,
    Grex immolatórum tener,
    Aram ante ipsam símplices
    Palma et corónis lúditis.

    Glória tibi Dómine,
    Qui natus es de Vírgine,
    Cum Patre et almo Spíritu,
    In sempitérna sǽcula.
    Amen.
  en: |
    All hail, ye little Martyr flowers,
    Sweet rosebuds cut in dawning hours!
    When Herod sought the Christ to find
    Ye fell as bloom before the wind.

    First victims of the Martyr bands,
    With crowns and palms in tender hands,
    Around the very altar, gay
    And innocent, ye seem to play.

    All honor, laud, and glory be,
    O Jesu, Virgin-born to thee;
    All glory, as is ever meet
    To Father and to Paraclete.
    Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified
