Como Santa María tornou a meninna que éra garrida, corda, e levó-a sigo a Paraíso.
| Line | Refrain | Metrics | |
| 1 | Ai, Santa María, | 5' A | |
| 2 | quen se per vós guía | 5' A | |
| 3 | quit' é de folía | 5' A | |
| 4 | e sempre faz ben. | 5 B | |
| Stanza I | |||
| 5 | Porend' un miragre vos direi fremoso | 11' c | |
| 6 | que fezo a Madre do Rei grorïoso, | 11' c | |
| 7 | e de o oír seer-vos-á saboroso, †CSM 79:7This line is slightly problematic, because all 13 natural syllables get a separate note or ligature in the music, in all three manuscripts. However, from the musical structure, it is obvious that seer should occupy the slot that becomes one syllable in subsequent stanzas, and since the contraction of seer through synaeresis happens many times elsewhere (see the Concordance), this is the suggested resolution here. From the point of view of the music itself, this means joining the two separate puncta given to seer into a single .oyo ligature (AG in bar 2 of the fifth line of music in Elmes). | 11' c | .oyo |
| 8 | e prazer-mi-á ên. †CSM 79:8Obligatory synalepha after unstressed mi; see the Concordance for more examples. | 5 B | .o |
| Ai, Santa María... | |||
| Stanza II | |||
| 9 | Aquesto foi feito por ũa meninna | 11' c | |
| 10 | que chamavan Musa, que mui fremosinna | 11' c | |
| 11 | éra e apósta, mas garridelinna | 11' c | |
| 12 | e de pouco sen. | 5 B | |
| Ai, Santa María... | |||
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| Stanza III | |||
| 13 | E esto fazendo, a mui Grorïosa | 11' c | |
| 14 | pareceu-ll' en sonnos, sobejo fremosa, | 11' c | |
| 15 | con muitas meninnas de maravillosa | 11' c | |
| 16 | beldad'; e porên | 5 B | |
| Stanza IV | |||
| 17 | quiséra-se Musa ir con elas lógo. | 11' c | |
| 18 | Mas Santa María lle diss': “éu te rógo | 11' c | |
| 19 | que, se migu' ir quéres, leixes ris' e jógo, | 11' c | |
| 20 | orgull' e desdên. | 5 B | |
| Ai, Santa María... | |||
| Stanza V | |||
| 21 | E se esto fazes, d' hoj' a trinta días | 11' c | |
| 22 | seerás comigu' entr' estas compannías | 11' c | |
| 23 | de moças que vees, que non son sandías, | 11' c | |
| 24 | ca lles non convên.” | 5 B | |
| Ai, Santa María... | |||
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| Stanza VI | |||
| 25 | Atant' houve Musa sabor das compannas | 11' c | |
| 26 | que en visiôn vira, que leixou sas mannas | 11' c | |
| 27 | e fillou lóg' outras, daquelas estrannas, | 11' c | |
| 28 | e non quis al ren. | 5 B | |
| Ai, Santa María... | |||
| Stanza VII | |||
| 29 | O padr' e a madre, quand' aquesto viron, | 11' c | |
| 30 | preguntaron Musa; e pois que ll' oíron | 11' c | |
| 31 | contar o que vira, mercee pediron | 11' c | |
| 32 | à que nos mantên. | 5 B | |
| Ai, Santa María... | |||
| Stanza VIII | |||
| 33 | A vint' e seis días tal féver aguda | 11' c | |
| 34 | fillou lóg' a Musa, que jouve tenduda; | 11' c | |
| 35 | e Santa María ll' houv' apareçuda, | 11' c | |
| 36 | que lle disse: “Ven, | 5 B | |
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| Stanza IX | |||
| 37 | ven pora mi tóste.” Respôs-lle: “De grado.” | 11' c | |
| 38 | E quando o prazo dos días chegado | 11' c | |
| 39 | foi, séu espírito houve Déus levado | 11' c | |
| 40 | u dos outros ten | 5 B | |
| Stanza X | |||
| 41 | santos. E porên seja de nós rogado | 11' c | |
| 42 | que eno jüízo, u verrá irado, | 11' c | |
| 43 | que nos ache quitos d' érr' e de pecado; | 11' c | |
| 44 | e dized': “amên.” | 5 B | |
| Ai, Santa María... | |||
Footnotes
| Line 7: | This line is slightly problematic, because all 13 natural syllables get a separate note or ligature in the music, in all three manuscripts. However, from the musical structure, it is obvious that seer should occupy the slot that becomes one syllable in subsequent stanzas, and since the contraction of seer through synaeresis happens many times elsewhere (see the Concordance), this is the suggested resolution here. From the point of view of the music itself, this means joining the two separate puncta given to seer into a single .oyo ligature (AG in bar 2 of the fifth line of music in Elmes). |
| Line 8: | Obligatory synalepha after unstressed mi; see the Concordance for more examples. |
Footnotes
| E1: | See the note to line 7 of the lyrics. |
Manuscript references
External links marked 
are to facsimiles on Greg Lindahl's Cantigas de Santa Maria website.
| [E] | 79 | viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/187small.htmlExternal link |
| [T] | 79 | |
| [To] | 42 | viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/To/bob042small.gifExternal link |
Oxford CSM Database record
External link to poem data: CSM 79http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=79
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Metrical summary
Refrain
| 5' 5' 5' 5 |
Stanzas
| 11' 11' 11' 5 |
Rhyme
AAAB / cccB| R | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | IX | X | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | i.a | ||||||||||
| B | eŋ | ||||||||||
| c | ozo | iɲa | oza | ɔgo | i.as | aɲas | iɾoŋ | uda | ado | ||
Estimated performance times
| Average syllables / min. | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Very slow | 50 | 13:15 |
| Slow | 100 | 6:37 |
| Medium | 150 | 4:25 |
| Fast | 200 | 3:18 |
| Very fast | 250 | 2:39 |
These are very approximate total times for a full sung (or spoken) performance of all stanzas with all repeats of the refrain. Note that the speed is in average syllables per minute, and no particular mensural interpretation is assumed. More ornamented music will reduce the syllabic speed considerably. Remember also to add time for instrumental preludes, interludes and postludes.
Total syllables: 663
