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“LUCIS CREATOR OPTIME.”
Thou, Light's Creator, first and best,
By whom new days in light are drest,
The young world making glad and bright
By gleaming of that earliest light:
By whom new days in light are drest,
The young world making glad and bright
By gleaming of that earliest light:
Whose wisdom joined in meet array
The morn and eve, and named them Day:—
Night glideth on in dim, dark air,—
Regard Thy people's tearful prayer!
The morn and eve, and named them Day:—
Night glideth on in dim, dark air,—
Regard Thy people's tearful prayer!
Lest sin-bound souls with Thee at strife,
Prove outcasts from the gift of life;
While thinking but of earth and time
They weave them still new chains of crime.
Prove outcasts from the gift of life;
While thinking but of earth and time
They weave them still new chains of crime.
O may we knock at Heaven's dread door,
And win the wreath that fades no more!
Shun harms without, clear hearts within
Of all their worst, their haunting sin.
And win the wreath that fades no more!
Shun harms without, clear hearts within
Of all their worst, their haunting sin.
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Father, do Thou this boon accord,
Through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord!
Who with the Holy Ghost, and Thee,
Dost live and reign eternally.
Through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord!
Who with the Holy Ghost, and Thee,
Dost live and reign eternally.
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