# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617), Lauds live query.
id: lauds-hymn-thursday
text:
  la: |
    Lux ecce surgit áurea,
    Pallens facéssat cǽcitas,
    Quæ nosmet in præceps diu
    Erróre traxit dévio.

    Hæc lux serénum cónferat,
    Purósque nos præstet sibi:
    Nihil loquámur súbdolum:
    Volvámus obscúrum nihil.

    Sic tota decúrrat dies,
    Ne lingua mendax, ne manus
    Oculíve peccent lúbrici,
    Ne noxa corpus ínquinet.

    Speculátor astat désuper,
    Qui nos diébus ómnibus,
    Actúsque nostros próspicit
    A luce prima in vésperum.
  en: |
    See the golden sun arise!
    Let no more our darkened eyes
    Snare us, tangled by surprise
    In the maze of sin!

    From false words and thoughts impure
    Let this light, serene and sure,
    Keep our lips without secure,
    Keep our souls within.

    So may we the day-time spend,
    That, till life’s temptations end,
    Tongue, nor hand, nor eye offend!
    One, above us all,

    Views in his revealing ray
    All we do, and think, and say,
    Watching us from break of day
    Till the twilight fall.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified