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Deo Patri sit gloria,

Ejusque soli Filio,

Cum Spiritu Paraclito,

Nunc et per omne saeculum.

AMBROSIUS, A.D. 340–397

Hymnus excerptus e precedentibus, lxxxiv.-lxxxvi, 1-8, 81-84, 97-100.

ALES diei nuntius

Lucem propinquam præcinit ;

Nos excitator mentium

Jam Christus ad vitam vocat.

Auferte, clamat, lectulos

Ægros, soporos, desides:
Castique, recti, ac sobrii

Vigilate jam sum proximus.

Jesum ciamus vocibus,

Flentes, precantes, sobrii:

Intenta supplicatio

Dormire cor mundum vetat.

Tu, Christe, somnum disjice,

Tu rumpe noctis vincula:
Tu solve peccatum vetus,
Novumque lumen ingere.

Deo Patri sit gloria
Ejusque soli Filio

Cum Spiritu Paraclito

Nune et per omne saeculum.

PRUDENTIUS, ratus A.D. 348.

Unto the Father, God of heaven,
And to the Son be glory given,
And to the Spirit evermore,

One God, the God whom we adore.

AMBROSE, A.D. 340-397.

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COCKCROW.

Hymn introduced into many Breviaries, and selected from
Nos. 84-86, vv. 1-8, 81-84, 97-100.

THE

HE bird that heralds in the light Crows loud to hail the rising day; And from our sleep of Death and Night, Christ bids us rise and come away.

Wake up! ye slumberers, He cries,
Sunken in sloth and earthly cheer;
And pure, and right, and wakeful, rise;
The night is spent, the day is near.

Jesus! Thy name be lifted high,
By watchful souls that pray or weep;
Oh, let our cry ascend the sky,
The very cry will banish sleep.

O Christ, unbind the chains of Night;
Undo the guilt, the power of sin;
Scatter its slumber by Thy might,
And shed new sunshine all within.

To God the Father glory be!

And to His only Son, Most High! And to the Spirit, One in Three!

Now, henceforth, and eternally. Amen.

PRUDENTIUS, b. A.D. 348.

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ANNUS, evolavit pennis ;
Anima! sic is perennis!
Annus ævum in hesternum,
Velox tu in sempiternum.

Retro fugit annus alis
In aeternum; immortalis
Tu occurres venienti
Saeculo indesinenti.

Ne superbus gloriare,
Noli tuam vim jactare,
Tecum atrox, personata
Mors it, tua flectens fata.

Vita inquit: 'ego fortis,'
Immemor invicta Mortis;
Nudans ensem Mors et vultum

Jactatorem sternit stultum.

Trade Deo te vocanti,
Tibi reo condonanti.

Salva Christi per cruorem,
Carpe vitam celsiorem.

Pergis in diem supernam,
Anni noctem in aeternam;
Retro viam nequiorem
Petunt, tu praestantiorem.

101

As

s the rapid year has sped,
Thou, my soul! art speeding so;

It has gone into the past,

To the future thou must go.

To the past Eternity

Time for ever hastes away;
To the Eternity to come,
Is thy grand and awful way.

Glory not in mortal strength,
Child of weakness! in thy pride;
Ruthless, shrouded in his mask,
Death, with Life, walks side by side.

Boasting Life cries, 'I am strong;
'I am stronger,' Death replies ;
Drops his mask, unsheathes his sword,
And the boaster lowly lies.

Give thyself to God my soul !
To be sheltered and forgiven;
By the blood of Jesus bought,
Lay thou hold of life and heaven.

Let thy years then pass and go,
Thou dost seek a better way;
They but sink to endless night,
Thou dost rise to endless day.

M M

Pallidam saluta mortem,
Dabit bonam tibi sortem
Super stellas ascendenti,
Cali vitam prosequenti.

Nocte tibi quiescendum,
At per diem est agendum;
Regna noctis relicturus
Cane sursum volaturus.

HODIERNUS.