JAM LUCIS ORTO SIDERE.
Now with the risen star of dawn,
To God as suppliants we pray,
That he may keep us free from harm,
And guide us through an active day.
May he, restraining, guard the tongue,
Lest it be found to strive and cry,
And, lest it drink in vanities,
May he protect the wayward eye.
Let all our inmost thoughts be pure,
And heedlessness of heart be gone;
Let self-denying drink and food
Hold pride and flesh securely down,
That when the day at length is past,
And night in turn has come to men,
Through abstinence from earth, we may
Give thee the only glory then.
To God the Father be the praise,
And to his sole-begotten Son,
And to the Holy Paraclete,
Now and until all time be done.