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Hymns
St Ambrose of Milan, tr. Copeland, 1848
Chapter 3
The Second Day. At Lauds.
From the Father’s glory shining,
Out of Light unfolding Light,
Light of Light, all light enshrining,
Day, in Whom the day is bright!
Sun of suns, upon us lighten
With Thy pure perpetual gleam;
Fill our hearts, our senses brighten
With Thy Spirit’s hallowing beam.
Yea, the Father too implore we,
Father of Almighty grace,
Father of Immortal glory,
To dispel all sinful trace;
In each strong resolve to aid us,
Back to turn the tempter’s spite;
Through each rugged chance to speed us,
All our acts to guide aright:
Our whole soul all heavenward bending,
Rob’d in snow-white chastity,
High in glowing faith ascending,
From all taint of guile kept free.
Christ our Food, Himself bestowing,
Faith our Cup, that cannot cloy,
Of Thy Spirit’s stream o’erflowing,
Drink we draughts of sobering joy.
So our day serenely gliding,
Modesty like peep of dawn,
Faith shall be like noon abiding,
O’er our eve no twilight drawn.
Morn rides forth, the light revealing;—
O’er us be Thy Brightness pour’d,
Son, in Father’s Fulness dwelling,
Father in Co-equal Word!
To the Father lauds unending,
To the Son and Spirit Blest,
Still from aye to aye ascending,
Be throughout all worlds addrest.