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Chapter 2  
     
1.
 (morning beauty)
  
2.
 Splendid You rise in the lightland of the sky,
  
3.
 O living God, creator of life !
  
4.
 You have dawned in the eastern heavens.  
5.
 You fill every land with your beauty.
  
6.
 (noon dominion)  
7.
 You are beauteous, mighty & radiant.
  
8.
 Risen high over every land,
  
9.
 your rays embrace the lands,
  
10.
 to the limit of all that You made.
  
11.
 Being Divine Light (Holy Spirit), You reach their end.
  
12.
 You bend them for your beloved son. 
  
13.
 Though You are far, your rays are on Earth.
  
14.
 Though seen by them, your course is unknown. 
  
15.
 (night chaos)  
16.
 When You set in the western lightland,
  
17.
 Earth is in darkness, as if death.
  
18.
 The sleepers are in their chambers, heads covered, 
  
19.
 no eye seeing the other.  
20.
 One could steal their goods from under their heads, they would not notice it.
  
21.
 Every lion comes from its den.
  
22.
 The serpents bite.  
23.
 Darkness hovers, Earth is silent.
  
24.
 For its creator rests in heaven.
  
25.
 (dawn rebirth)  
26.
 At dawn You have risen in the heavens.
  
27.
 To shine as the God of daytime !
  
28.
 You dispel the dark and cast your rays.
  
29.
 The Two Lands celebrate daily.
  
30.
 Awake they stand on their feet. 
  
31.
 You have made them get up.  
32.
 They wash and dress, their arms raised in adoration to your appearance.
  
33.
 The entire land sets out to work.
  
34.
 All cattle are satisfied with their fodder.
  
35.
 The trees and the grass become green.
  
36.
 Birds fly from their nests, their wings praising your soul.
  
37.
 All game animals frisk on their hooves, all that fly and flutter, live when You dawn for them.
  
38.
 Ships fare downstream and back upstream, roads lie open when You rise.
  
39.
 Your rays penetrate the Great Green deep.
  

 
 
 

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