In the hope of resurrection’s light;
In the prayers of the sires of eld;
In the visions that the seers beheld;
In the precepts the apostles taught;
In the faith by which confessors wrought;
In the innocence of virgins pure;
In the deeds of just men that endure.
I bind myself to-day—
To the power of Heaven,
To the lustre, sun-given;