Salvete, flores Martyrum

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.