Deus qui caeli

Deus, qui caeli lumen es (saec. V-VI)

Meter: 8.8.8.8

Melody: d f g g f a g g

• File:236-deus qui caeli lumen es.mp3 H.IV, p. 236

Latinam Deus, qui caeli lumen es satorque lucis, qui polum paterno fultum bracchio praeclara pandis dextera. Aurora stellas iam tegit rubrum sustollens gurgitem, umectis atque flatibus terram baptizans roribus. Iam noctis umbra linquitur, polum caligo deserit, typusque Christi, lucifer diem sopitum suscitat, Dies dierum tu, Deus, lucisque lumen ipse es, Unum potens per omnia, potens in unum Trinitas. Te nunc, Salvator, quaesumus tibique genu flectimus, Patrem cum Sancto Spiritu totis laudantes vocibus. Amen.

English O God, Thou who, heaven's light, Thou are and the sower of daylight; Thou who, the sky, held up by a paternal arm, spread out with a lustrous right hand. The dawn now conceals the stars, raising on high a red gulf, with a moist and blowing dew, baptising the earth. Now the night's shadow is relinquished, the darkness deserts the sky, and the type of Christ, the morning star stirs up the day that was lulled to sleep. The Day of days, Thou, O God, and the daylight's light, Thyself are, One, powerful through all, powerful in one, O Trinity! Thee now, O Saviour, we pray and to Thee the knee we bend, Father with the Holy Spirit, praising with all our voices. Amen.