Debitas laudes Triadi supremae
Concinat orbis.
Text from Daniel, H. A., Thesaurus hymnologicus, 5 vols.; Lipsiae: 1855-1856, IV, 319.
The translation was made by Francis Pott, M. A., Curate of Ticehurst, Sussex, and one of the editors of Hymns Ancient and Modern, London, 1861. The original form of Pott’s translation appeared first in a hymnal compiled by him, Hymns Fitted to the Order of Common Prayer, etc., London, 1864. It reads as follows:
The year is gone beyond recall;
’Tis gone—with all its hopes and fears,
With all its joys for those new born,
With all its troubled mourners’ tears.
We thank Thee, Lord, for countless gifts,
For dangers we have passed unscathed;