SONGS OF PRAISE

Æterne rerum conditor. DREAD FRAMER of the earth and sky, Who dost the light and darkness give, And all the cheerful change supply Of alternating morn and eve! Light of…

Day of Wrath! Oh, day of mourning! See fulfilled the prophets' warning! Heaven and earth in ashes burning! Oh, what fear man's bosom rendeth, When from heaven the Judge descendeth.…

O FAITHFUL CROSS! O noblest tree! In all our woods there's none like thee: No earthly groves, no shady bowers, Produce such leaves, such fruit, such flowers. Sweet are the…

χορός ^/σραηλ. The choirs of ransomed Israel, The Red Sea's passage o'er, Upraised the hymn of triumph Upon the farther shore, And shouted, as the foeman Was whelmed beneath the…

"The Lord my Maker, forming me of clay, By His own Breath the breath of life conveyed: O’er all the bright new world He gave me sway, A little lower…

την -ημέραν τήν ψρζχτην. THAT fearful day, that day of speechless dread, When Thou shalt come to judge the quick and dead- I shudder to foresee, O God! what then…

μυστηρίον ξένον. OH, wondrous mystery, full of passing grace! The grot becometh Heaven: the Virgin's breast The bright Cherubic Throne: the stall that place Where He, Who fills all space,…

oi παΐοες ευσέβεια. The Holy Children boldly stand Against the tyrant's dread command: The kindled furnace they defy, — No doom can shake their constancy: They in the midmost flame…

χόπον τε χάΐ χάματον. Art thou weary, art thou languid, Art thou sore distrest? "Come to Me," — saith One, — "and, coming, Be at rest!" Hath He marks to…

'Ράβδος έχ ττ^ς ρίζης. Rod of the Root of Jesse, Thou, Flower of Mary born, From that thick shady mountain Cam'st glorious forth this morn: Of her, the Ever Virgin,…