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Hymns
St Ambrose of Milan, tr. Copeland, 1848
Chapter 18
The Second Day. At Vespers.
God of the boundless space,
Who, lest the waters mixt
In wild confusion run, didst place
The bounding sky betwixt;
Didst give heaven’s rain his home,
Earth’s flowing streams their bed,
Lest bursting flames the world consume,
Moist cooling dews to shed;
Most loving Lord, inspire
Thy breath of heavenly grace,
Lest with new blasts sin’s ancient fire
Our ruin’d souls deface.
Let Faith around her spread
Her ever brightening ray,
All vanities beneath her tread,
All falsehood chase away.
This grant us, Father kind,
And Thou, Co-equal Son,
And Holy Ghost, with Both enshrin’d,
Eternal Three in One.