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I bring, in return for the many graces you deemed me worthy of, and you always deliver me from manifold calamities, from visible enemies, and even more from the invisible. May I round the end of my life as I began it, always rich in you as a protectress for all of life and a well-accepted intercessor to your Son with those who have pleased Him, the lovers of purity. Therefore, do not allow me to be given over to torments and to become a joy to the soul-destroying enemy. Stand before me and deliver me from fire and darkness, justifying me by faith and your grace; for in you grace has appeared to us from God, and to you I now weave a hymn of thanksgiving. Hail, O all-joyful Maiden, virgin mother, most beautiful of all virgins, most exalted, higher than the heavenly orders, lady, all-queen, joy of our race; you are always well-disposed to our race and for me everywhere the greatest salvation.

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φέρω, ἀνθ' ὧν με πολλῶν ἠξίωσας χαρίτων, ἀεί τε ῥύῃ συμφορῶν πολυτρόπων, ἐχθρῶν ὁρατῶν, ἀοράτων τε πλέον. Τέλος δὲ κάμψαιμ' ὥσπερ ἠρξάμην βίου, πλουτῶν ἀεί σε προστάτιν παντὸς βίου καὶ πρέσβιν εὐπρόσδεκτον ἐς σὸν Υἱέα σὺν εὐαρεστήσασιν αὐτῷ φιλάγνοις. Μὴ γοῦν ἐάσῃς ἐκδοθῆναι βασάνοις καὶ χάρμ' ἔσεσθαι δυσμενεῖ ψυχοφθόρῳ. Πρόστηθι καὶ ῥῦσαι δὲ πυρὸς καὶ σκότους, πίστει δικαιοῦσά με καὶ χάριτί σου· ἐν σοὶ γὰρ ὦπται χάρις ἡμῖν ἐκ Θεοῦ, καὶ σοὶ χαριστήριον ὕμνον νῦν πλέκω. Χαῖρ', ὦ Κόρη πάγχαρτε, μῆτερ παρθένε, καλλίστα πασῶν παρθένων ὑπερτάτη, οὐρανιώνων ταγμάτων ὑπερτέρα, δέσποινα, παντάνασσα, χάρμα τοῦ γένους· ἀεί ποτ' εὖ φρονοῦσα τυγχάνεις γένει κἀμοὶ μεγίστη πανταχοῦ σωτηρία.