O Sol salutis intimis

The darkness fleets, and joyful earth
Welcomes the newborn day;
Jesu, true Sun of human souls!
Shed in our souls thy ray.

Thou, who dost give the accepted time,
Give tears to purify.
Give flames of love to burn our hearts,
As victims unto Thee.

That fountain, whence our sins have flow’d
Shall soon in tears distil,
If but thy penitential grace
Subdue the stubborn will.

Lo! day returns, thy own blest day,
All things to joy awake;
Oh, may we, to thy paths restor’d,
In nature’s joy partake!

Eternal Trinity! to Thee
Let Earth’s vast fabric bend;
While evermore from souls renew’d,
New hymns of praise ascend.