# 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.

    Deo Patri sit glória,
    Ejúsque soli Fílio,
    Cum Spíritu Paráclito,
    Et nunc, et in perpétuum.
    Amen.
  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!

    Unto God the Father, Son,
    Holy Spirit, Three in One,
    One in Three, be glory done,
    Now and evermore.
    Amen.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified