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Hymns
St Ambrose of Milan, tr. Copeland, 1848
Chapter 23
The Fifth Day. At Vespers.
God, Who in wondrous might,
The children of the deep,
Some liftest to th’ aerial height,
Some in th’ abyss dost keep,
Fish dost in Ocean sink,
Fowls waft aloft to Heaven,
To natures, whom one birth doth link,
Hast diverse dwellings given.
Grant to Thy servants all,
Sons of the Blood-red wave,
To know no more sin’s deadly fall,
Nor shudder at the grave.
Be none by guilt weigh’d down,
By pride borne up on high,
Lest soul elate be headlong thrown,
Or crush’d sink down and die.
This grant us, Father kind,
And Thou, Co-equal Son,
And Holy Ghost, with Both enshrin’d,
Eternal Three in One.