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Hymns
St Ambrose of Milan, tr. Copeland, 1848
Chapter 21
The Fourth Day. At Vespers.
All-holy God on high,
Who bath’st in fiery glow
The glittering spaces of the sky,
Heaven’s ever-brilliant show:
Who on this day didst light
The sun’s red wheel of fire,
And gav’st the moon her circuit bright,
The stars their mazy quire;
To set a severing bound
Betwixt the light and dark,
And as the circling months run round,
Their rise and wane to mark.
Dispel the heart’s drear night,
Wash out the soul’s dark stain,
Throw off our trespass’ whelming weight,
Unloose guilt’s wearying chain.
This grant us, Father kind,
And Thou, Co-equal Son,
And Holy Ghost, with Both enshrin’d,
Eternal Three in One.