# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Lauds live query.
id: lauds-hymn-wednesday
text:
  la: |
    Nox, et tenébræ, et núbila,
    Confúsa mundi et túrbida:
    Lux intrat, albéscit polus:
    Christus venit: discédite.

    Calígo terræ scínditur
    Percússa solis spículo,
    Rebúsque jam color redit,
    Vultu niténtis síderis.

    Te, Christe, solum nóvimus:
    Te mente pura et simplici,
    Flendo et canéndo quǽsumus,
    Inténde nostris sénsibus.

    Sunt multa fucis íllita,
    Quæ luce purgéntur tua:
    Tu, lux Eói síderis,
    Vultu seréno illúmina.
  en: |
    Day is breaking, dawn is bright:
    Hence, vain shadows of the night!
    Mists that dim our mortal sight,
    Christ is come! Depart!

    Darkness routed lifts her wings
    As the radiance upwards springs:
    Through the world of wakened things
    Life and colour dart.

    Thee, O Christ, alone we know:
    Singing even in our woe,
    With pure hearts to thee we go:
    On our senses shine!

    In thy beams be purged away
    All that leads our thoughts astray!
    Through our spirits, King of day,
    Pour thy light divine!
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified