DEAR MEKER OF THE STARRY SKIES

Dear Maker of the starry skies,\nLight never lost by faithful eyes,\nChrist, the salvation sent to all,\nBe near thy servants when they call.\n2. Thy love that pitied from on high\nA guilty race foredoomed to die,\nWas fain that sentence to repeal,\nThose failing energies to heal.\n3. So, at the eventide of earth,\nFrom that bridechamber of thy birth\nOur mortal flesh thou didst assume,\nBorn of a spotless Virgin’s womb.\n4. O thou, at whose august decree,\nOnce heard, creation bends the knee,\nWhile heaven and earth obey thy will,\nTrembling before thee, and are still.\n5. Holiest of holy ones, from whom\nEternity receives its doom,\n47\nIn this brief world of time, we pray,\nKeep Satan’s treacherous darts at bay.\n6. To God the Father, God the Son,\nAnd God the Spirit, three in One\nGlory and power and majesty\nThrough everlasting ages be.