Darkness and chaos and death flee from the face of the light.
Tr. Maurice F. Bell, from The English Hymnal by permission of the Oxford University Press.
Notes
Chapter One
Early Middle Ages: Latin Hymns of The Fourth Century
[1.] Jerome, Liber de viris illustribus, 100 (MPL 23, 699).
[2.] Hilarius autem, Gallus episcopus Pictaviensis, eloquentia conspicuus, hymnorum carmine floruit primus. De ecclesiasticis officiis 1, 6 (MPL 83, 743).
[3.] W. N. Myers, The Hymns of Saint Hilary of Poitiers in the Codex Aretinus (Phila., Un. of Penn., 1928) 12, 29, 53, 67. For a discussion of other hymns attributed to Hilary, see p. 14; also A. S. Walpole, Early Latin Hymns (Cambridge, 1922) 1-4. Translations by W. N. Myers.
[4.] Antiphonary of Bangor, edited by F. E. Warren, Henry Bradshaw Society Publications, vols. 4, 10 (London, 1893, 1895). For discussion of authorship see vol. 10, 36.
[5.] Or perhaps Treves.
[6.] Augustine, Confessions 9, 7 (MPL 32, 770). Translation from Confessions of S. Augustine, Ancient and Modern Library of Theol. Literature (London, 1886).