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Hymns
St Ambrose of Milan, tr. Copeland, 1848
Chapter 20
Wednesday. At Matins.
Creator, ever good and kind,
Behold, Our God, and see;
Our souls, to quiet rest consign’d,
From sin’s black slumber free.
Thee, Holiest Jesu, Thee we pray,
Our sins,—forgive them all,
Who, rising to confess ere day,
The lingering hours forestall.
By night our hands and hearts we raise,
Taught by the Psalmist’s word;
And emulate the midnight praise,
By Paul and Silas pour’d.
Thou seest what evil we have done,
Our hidden faults we shew:
With prayers and tears our guilt we own,
Oh, pardon all we owe.
This grant us, Father, ever kind,
And Thou, Co-equal Son,
And Holy Ghost, with Both enshrin’d,
Eternal Three in One.