Lo, a new creation,

Rising into view,

And in order'd station,

Drinking heavenly dew:

Good Spirit, with Thy love make Thou me anew.

Praise to Holy Spirit,

To Father and to Son,

By whom we inherit

The Eternal One,

With hearts woke from the dead by the living Sun.

AT THE COMPLINE.

If the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away: how shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious.-2 COR. iii.

"Adsis superne Spiritus."

HAIL Father of the poor, and Friend benign, Immortal Spirit Divine,

From out Thine own prolific bosom pour

Thy promised blessings on the barren earth,
Which gladdeneth at Thy birth.

Here, where night comes from Heav'n's alternate

door

To muffle up the blooming eye of day,
With uncreated ray

Shine forth, cease not to shine,

Shine in our hearts, good Spirit, evermore.

Thou of the inner heart art guest and friend,
Thou of all labours art the sweet repose;
Thou op'st the fount of woes,

The cup of sorrow at Thy bidding flows;
But Thou dost Thy pure joys divinely blend,
And as the blended streams flow forth apace,
Dost o'er them pitying bend.

Thou art the fount of grace:

Grant us with holy hardness to contend,
To conquer and to win th' immortal end,
Which is to see Thy face,

And ever sing in the undefiled place,
The Father, Son, and Thee, the Spirit benign,
Bath'd in whose fires divine,

E'en our dull hearts may catch the light and shine.

ON TRINITY SUNDAY.

AT THE FIRST VESPERS.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out !-ROM. xi.

"Ter sancte, ter potens Deus."

THRICE holy, thrice Almighty Three,
Incomprehended Trinity.

O uncreated Light all One,
O never ending, ne'er begun,
Thrice beatific Union!

O ever very Unity,

O ever triune Verity,

O all-upholding Charity!

Where the thickest clouds surround

The unapproached ray is found,

Angels, bending to the ground,
Trembling glow, nor dare to know
Th' ineffable and dread profound.
Born of Thee, we Thee confess,
All-perfect in Thy blessedness:

We Thee confess in Thine own light,
In blessedness most infinite.

Faith, kindling into charity,

Hath dared to raise her thoughts to Thee,
And tastes of what herself shall be.
Father, give us to do what Thou
Wouldst have done :

What Thou dost teach give us to know,
Holy Son;

And to approve what Thou dost love,
Holy One.

AT MIDNIGHT.

There are Three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these Three are One.-JOHN V.

"Sublime Numen, ter potens, ter maximum."

ALL-good, all-great, all-mighty, Three in One,
The Father, and the Spirit, and the Son-
Ineffable mysterious union!

Sublimęst Name! all-holy, boundless rays,
Of unborn light encircle all Thy ways;
All things created labour Thee to praise.

Father, Thou art the inexhaustive well,

Where the mysterious Trinity doth dwell—
Incomprehensible, unspeakable?

All One in substance, One in Majesty ;
All One in substance, but in person Three ;
The Son of Thee is born: the Spirit free

From both proceeds, with both is glorified :
The Father in the Son doth aye reside;
The Son doth in the Father aye abide;

And each is in the Holy Spirit found;
The Holy Spirit doth in both abound:
Nothing the centre is, and nought the bound.

None after in the Three, and none before,Shall be as they are now, and were of yore, Equal in power and Godhead evermore.

Praise equal to the Father aye we raise,
And to the Son praise equal be always;

And always to the Spirit equal praise. Amen.