{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec73.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec73.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec73.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\nby Metrophanes of Smyrna\nFrom the Canon for Sunday of the Second Tone.\n\u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03c6\u03b5\u03b3\u03b3\u1f74\u03c2 \u039c\u03bf\u03bd\u1f70\u03c2 \u03b8\u03b5\u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae.\nO Unity of Threefold Light,\n \u00a0\u00a0Send out Thy loveliest ray,\n And scatter our transgressions' night,\n \u00a0\u00a0And turn it into day;\n Make us those temples pure and fair,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thy glory loveth well,\n The spotless tabernacles, where\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou may\u2019st vouchsafe to dwell!\nThe glorious hosts of peerless might\n \u00a0\u00a0That ever see Thy Face, p. 235\n Thou mak\u2019st the mirrors of Thy Light,\n \u00a0\u00a0The vessels of Thy grace:\n Thou, when their wond'rous strain they weave,\n \u00a0\u00a0Hast pleasure in the lay:\n Deign thus our praises to receive,\n \u00a0\u00a0Albeit from lips of clay!\nAnd yet Thyself they cannot know,\n \u00a0\u00a0Nor pierce the veil of light\n That hides Thee from the Thrones below,\n \u00a0\u00a0As in profoundest night:\n How then can mortal accents frame\n \u00a0\u00a0Due tribute to the King?\n Thou, only, while we praise Thy Name,\n \u00a0\u00a0Forgive us as we sing!\nBeyond Metrophanes, it will not be necessary to carry our translations. The following names may, however, be mentioned.","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: Metrophanes of Smyrna: O Unity of Threefold Light","type":"page"}