5. That when this fleeting world is o'er, 6. To God the Father and the Son And Holy Spirit, three in one, Be endless glory, as before Time was, and will be ever more. DEUS TUORUM, ON COMMON OF MARTYRS. 1. Oh God, the lot, the crown, the gain While thus we sing thy Martyr's praise 2. This saint esteeming worldly joys 3. He bravely ran his painful race 4. To thee, most gracious Lord, we fly 5. To God the Father and the Son For an eternal length of days. Amen. ISTE CONFESSOR, ON COM. OF CONFESSORS AND BISHOPS. 1. This great confessor, God's most worthy servant, Whom pious nations o'er the earth are praising,* This day rejoicing rose to heaven and conquer'd Blisses eternal. If it be not the day of his death say from * This day rejoicing well deserved to conquer High praise and honour. 2. Him pious, prudent, humble, modest manners 3. So great his merits, heaven oft suspended Nature's fixed courses: sickness and diseases, Weakness, and death itself, when he commanded, Vanquish'd obeyed him. 4. Therefore with choral hymns we now revere him, 5. Praise be to Him, great honour, might and glory, Him who enthron'd in heaven sheds forth his splendour, Ruling the world and all its chances swaying, Three, but One only. JESU CORONA VIRGINUM, ON COM. OF 1. Jesus receive our suppliant cry, Bore child nor lost her virgin zone. 2. Lilies bedeck thy radient way, For choirs of virgins round thee stray;- 3. Which way soe'er thy courses tend 4. Humbly we beg thee that our sense 5. To God the Father and the Son FORTEM VIRILIS PECTORE, COM. OF HOLY WOMEN. 1. Let's praise this woman who, endued 2. Such holy love inflam'd her heart 3. Spare fasts did every sense control, 4. Great source of courage, Christ our king! 5. To God the Father and the Son, JESU REDEMPTOR OMNIUM, FOR CHRISTMAS. 1. Jesus the ransomer of man, Didst from the sovereign Father spring, 2. Thou brightness of the Father's rays, 3. Think, thou who didst all nature make, 4. This day recalls the deed of grace. 5. The stars, the earth, the waters, all Thy praise; and all their Saviour greet. |