Songs of the Soul Gathered Out of Many Lands And Ages

! They who the voice prophetic Knew not as word of thine, The unknown tongues regarded As drunkenness of wine; But we, in faith, devoutly Give God the honor due: Sole Trinity, we bless thee, Who makest all things new 1 The prophet Joel, looking Upon the face of God, Astonied, heard him speaking, And told his words abroad: They whom I give my Spirit Shall cry thus, filled with might, Sole Trinity, we bless thee, O everlasting Light 1 The third day-hour abounded With grace, that we might know The source of blessing threefold, Whence benedictions flow. And now on this glad morning, The best and chief of days, Sole Trinity, we bless thee In hymns of grateful praise I St. John or Damascene O UNITY OF THREEFOLD LIGHT. JK Movoc Qeapx.mil.) UNITY of threefold light, Send out thy loveliest ray, And scatter our transgression's night, And turn it into day ! Make thou those temples pure and fair Thy glory loveth well, The spotless tabernacles, where Thou mayst vouchsafe to dwell ! The glorious hosts of peerless night That ever see thy face, Thou mak'st the mirrors of thy light, The vessels of thy grace ; Then when their wondrous strain they weave, Hast pleasure in the lay : Deign thus our praises to receive, Albeit from lips of clay! And yet thyself they cannot know, Nor pierce the veil of light That hides thee from the thrones below, As in profoundest n...