I wake, I wake, ye heavenly choir;
May your devotion me inspire,
That I like you my age may spend,
Like you may on my God attend.

May I like you in God delight,
Have all day long my God in sight,
Perform, like you, my Maker's will,
O may I never more do ill!

Praise God from Whom all blessings flow,
Praise Him all creatures here below,

Praise Him above ye heavenly host,

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

In Winter.

Awake, my soul, and with the sun

Thy daily stage of duty run:

Shake off dull sloth and joyful rise
To pay thy morning sacrifice.

All praise to Thee, Who safe hast kept,

And hast refreshed me while I slept:

Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, I may of endless life partake.

Shine on me, Lord, new life impart,

Fresh ardours kindle in my heart:

One ray of Thy all-quickening light
Dispels the sloth and clouds of night.

Lord, I my vows to Thee renew;
Disperse my sins as morning dew,

Guard my first springs of thought and will,
And with Thyself my spirit fill.

Direct, control, suggest, this day,

All I design, or do, or say;

That all my powers, with all their might,

In Thy sole glory may unite.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below;

Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen

EVENING.

How sweet the days, O Lord, are sped, When brethren, owning Christ their Head, From Whom they live, on Whom they feed, Are one in Spirit and in deed.

How sweet to Thee in purest lays

High lauds beneath one roof to raise ;
With banded prayers like valiant men
To storm Heaven-gate, and entrance win.

O love we this fair home, nor cease
To work her weal in busy peace!
"O woe to him that will not fear
To scatter seeds of discord here!"

Yet
every loss to gain shall turn
For hearts that Christ in all discern ;
Who fiercer fights is fairer crowned,
And foes deal honour with the wound.

More fell by far the flattering tongue
That saps the breast with secret wrong,
And sliding in unheeded slays

The soul with sweets of poisoned praise.

Grant us to live, blest Trinity,

In sweet exchange of Charity,

And lighten each his brother's load,

Treading the heavenward, homeward road.

TUESDAY.

MORNING.

Lo! the golden light is peering,

Let the dimness fleet away, Which so long hath kept us veering From the narrow path astray.

Amen.

May the morn, sweet calmness breathing,
Keep us, morn-like, chaste and pure ;
In our lips no falsehood sheathing,
In our hearts no sin obscure.

So the day, all smoothly gliding,
May preserve our tongue from guile,
Eyes from wandering, feet from sliding,
Hands from aught that can defile.

All day long an eye is o'er us,
Which our every secret knows,

Sees our every step before us,

From first morn till evening's close.

To the Father lauds unending,

To the Son and Spirit blest,

Still from age to age ascending,

Be throughout all worlds addrest. Amen.

EVENING.

In Summer.

Ere darkling wanes the day,
O all-enlightening Lord,
For pity and for love, we pray,

Be Thou our watch and ward.

Unhallowed dreams dispel,

Of wandering fancy born,
From ghostly malice shield us well
In stainless sleep till morn.

O Father, hear us pray,
Hear us, O Son and Lord,

Hear, Holy Ghost, who art for aye

With Sire and Son adored.

Amen.

In Winter.

Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide;
When other helpers fail, and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day;
Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see;

O Thou Who changest not, abide with me.

I need Thy presence every passing hour;
What but Thy grace can foil the tempter's power?
Who like Thyself my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.