dispelling the despair of sleep.
I am bound by fetters of sin,
free me by your prayers, O Bride of God!
Keep me in the night and in the day,
delivering me from warring enemies.
As you bore the life-giving God,
give life to me, who am wounded by passions.
As you bore the unsetting Light,
enlighten my blinded soul.
O wondrous palace of the Master,