Classic Poem

O Light of Light, whose glory is to dwell,
Effulgent God, with God Invisible:

O Life of Life, whose fountain unexplored
Flows where archangel's wing hath never soar'd:

O Love of Love, whose uncreated rest
Is the fruition of Thy Father's breast:

O Light, whose Dayspring, dawning from on high,
Shone in Thy loved apostle's heart and eye:

O Life, whose quickening Spirit breathed the wor
Of heavenly wisdom in his accents heard:

O Love, whose bosom, in its woes serene,
Suffer'd his love and sorrow there to lean:

O Life, Light, Love, unchanging evermore,
Upon Thy Church Thy grace and glory pour;

Until, beyond all storms of earthly strife,
She gains the light of everlasting life.