VI Evening Hymn for Tuesday Telluris alme Conditor ALL-BOUNTEOUS Framer of the earth, That thence might spring the tender shoot, The colour'd flower, the pleasant fruit; The grass, her future tribes to feed; And, wrapt in each, its genial seed: The wounds of the diseased soul Make thou with gracious freshness whole : That she her sins in tears may steep, Her lusts in due subjection keep; To Thy commands allegiance pay; At all that's good with pleasure glow; So be Thy will, O Father, done; VII Morning Hymn for Wednesday Consors paterni luminis CONSORT of paternal light, Light of Light, essential day, Bidding farewell to the night, Chase the darkness from the mind, Let not sleep our senses bind, Christ, behold with kind regard, What to Thee in faith we bear; Let the morning hymn be heard, Herald to the morning prayer. Prayer and hymn receive, addrest To Thy Father, and to Thee, And Thy Holy Spirit blest, Reigning to eternity. B VIII Evening Hymn for Wednesday Cali Deus sanctissime THRICE Holy Sovereign of the sky, Thy fleecy brightness dost diffuse, And paint them with thy beauteous hues : Thou who along the expanse of air Didst wheel the sun's refulgent car, Ordain the moon's perpetual course, And curb the planets' wandering force: Apt in their motions to divide The morning from the evening tide; And by each season's noted sign The days, and months, and years define : |