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

I

Now daylight floods the morning sky,

And earthward glides the approaching day,

The dancing rays of sunlight chase

The gathered fears of night away.

II

Hence dreams that cloud the soul! away,

Ye terrors grim of midnight born!

Whate’er the dark of night hath bred,

Die in the light that greets the morn!