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,