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Programme Note

Latin text sourced from MS 391, p. 236: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College (the Portiforium of St Wulfstan)
Translation: Rev. George Herbert Palmer (1846-1926) and Rev. Joseph William Chadwick (1841-1882)

For TRINITY

Tu, Trinitatis Unitas,
orbem potenter qui regis,
attende laudis canticum
quod excubantes psallimus.

Nam lectulo consurgimus
noctis quieto tempore,
ut flagitemus vulnerum
a te medelam omnium.
Amen.


You, oneness of the Trinity,
Who rulest all things mightily,
bow down to hear the songs of praise
which, freed from bonds of sleep, we raise.

While lingers yet the peace of night,
we rouse us from our slumbers light;
that might of instant prayer may win
The healing balm for wounds of sin.
Amen.