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Pie Jesu.

final couplet of the hymn "Dies irae", often put in musical settings

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"Pie Jesu" is a text from the Lacrimosa, a hymn in the sequence "Dies irae," where it is the final (nineteenth) couplet. The couplet is often included in musical settings of the Requiem Mass as a motet. The phrase means "pious Jesus" in the vocative.

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