Hymns of the Early Church / being translations from the poetry of the Latin church, arranged in the order of the Christian year

by John Brownlie

O hear our earnest prayer as now

The gloomy shades are gathering round;

III

O free our souls from guilty stains,

That we Thy favour still may know;

And let no thought the mind possess,

To bind the heart to earth below.

IV

That we may beat at heaven’s fair gate,

Where safely stored our treasure lies,