1 O splendor of God’s glory bright,
from light eternal bringing light!
O Light of light, light’s living spring,
true day, all days illumining.

2 Come, very Sun of heaven’s love,
in lasting radiance from above,
and to our inward hearts convey
the Holy Spirit's cloudless ray.

3 And now to you our prayers ascend,
Creator, glorious without end;
we plead with sovereign grace for power
to conquer in temptation’s hour.

4 Confirm our will to do the right,
and keep our hearts from envy’s blight;
let faith its eager fires renew,
and hate the false, and love the true.

5 Dawn’s glory gilds the earth and skies:
let him, our perfect morn, arise–
the Word in God the Father one,
the Father imaged in the Son.