Decora lux aeternitatis auream

Bath’d in eternity’s all-beauteous beam,
And opening into Heav’n a path sublime,
Welcome the golden day! which heralds in
The Apostolic Chiefs, whose glory fills all time!

Peter and Paul, the Fathers of great Rome!
Now sitting in the Senate of the skies!
One by the Cross, the other by the Sword,
Sent to their thrones on high, and life’s eternal prize.

O happy Rome! whom that most glorious blood
For ever consecrates while ages flow;
Thou, thus empurpled, art more beautiful
Than all that doth appear most beautiful below.

Praise, blessing, majesty, through endless days,
Be to the Trinity immortal given;
Who, in pure Unity, profoundly sways
Eternally all things alike in earth and Heaven.