Hymn: The Angel of the Waters Lauds

RIGHTEOUS art Thou, O God, who art, and wast,
And shalt be, when all time is past,
The first who reignedst, and the last:
Righteous art Thou, who hast this Day,
Thy Kingdoms Justice to display,
Righteously judg'd, that Blood shall Blood repay.

Thy Servants Blood they without mercy shed,
And to be' aveng'd of th' happy Dead,
Made by curst hands the Living bleed:
With big swoln Veins Thy Prophets stood,
Each Saint, the Genius of his Flood,
Pour'd from his opened Heart true streams of Blood.

For Blood they thirsted; and to drink have now
Pure Blood, wherewith their Rivers flow:
So worthy they, so Righteous Thou!
Et andivi alterum dicentem, Etiam Domine.
So Righteous Thou, so worthy they,
Who did Thy Saints, and Prophets slay,
For Blood to' have Blood, and Blood in Blood repay.