Earnest to pray and weep,
Such fervent supplication still
Forbids pure hearts to sleep.
“Disturb our dream, thou holy Christ,
Break off the night’s dark chain;
Forgive us all our sin of old,
And grant us light again.”
And so it is still he who casts the ray of his fancy upon Bethlehem and upon the Transfigured Christ. Here is the Quicumque Christum quaeritis in proof of his real genius:
“O ye who seek your Lord to-day,
Lift up your eyes on high,