# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Lauds live query.
id: lauds-hymn-tuesday
text:
  la: |
    Ales diéi núntius
    Lucem propínquam prǽcinit:
    Nos excitátor méntium
    Jam Christus ad vitam vocat.

    Auférte, clamat, léctulos,
    Ægro sopóre désides:
    Castíque, recti, ac sóbrii
    Vigiláte, jam sum próximus.

    Jesum ciámus vócibus,
    Flentes, precántes, sóbrii:
    Inténta supplicátio
    Dormíre cor mundum vetat.

    Tu, Christe, somnum díscute:
    Tu rumpe noctis víncula:
    Tu solve peccátum vetus,
    Novúmque lumen íngere.
  en: |
    As the bird, whose clarion gay
    Sounds before the dawn is grey,
    Christ, who brings the spirit’s day,
    Calls us, close at hand:

    Wake! he cries, and for my sake,
    From your eyes dull slumbers shake!
    Sober, righteous, chaste, awake!
    At the door I stand!

    Lord, to thee we lift on high
    Fervent prayer and bitter cry:
    Hearts aroused to pray and sigh
    May not slumber more:

    Break the sleep of death and time,
    Forged by Adam’s ancient crime;
    And the light of Eden’s prime
    To the world restore!
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified