Sequence 20. Whitsuntide

COME, our comfort's chief reviver !
Hope of saving-health, Life-giver !

May Thy grace here present be !
Pleasant heat, dew from above !

Outgrowth from the God of love !
One with it substantially !

Who from both proceedest, neither
Canst be separate from either,
Linked with both of them together
By an everlasting tie;
Dew and breath of both in heaven !

By both Sire and Son be given
Of Thy Spirit to us even
In rich plenty from on high.

Of this dew and breath thou hearest ; 1 5
Deem Him scent too, whereby clearest
Is His Godhead to us shown.

As this dew, that from it bursteth,
Tastes man more, the more he thirsteth
With a thirst that nought tones down.

For the world's regeneration
It to water consecration
Gave, on which at the creation,
O'er its surface borne, it sate.

Fountain, source of love's devotion !
Fountain, cleansing sinful motion !

Fountain from the Godhead's ocean,
That all founts doth consecrate !

Fire, unfed by fuel, flowing
From the rod with ardent glowing
That devours both kid and bread !

Fire, unlike all fire, O may the
Altar of our soul, we pray Thee,
Ever with Thy flame be fed !

Darkly by the women seven
Art Thou figured, Truth of Heaven !

Inner life to all things given !
Spirit, Sevenfold in grace !

Thee all various types betoken,
Though Thy oneness be unbroken ;
Nor of Thee may it be spoken,
That a type can Thee embrace.

126 PENl'ECOSTE.
Ignis vive, vivax unda,
Fire of life and life's bright river !

Cleanse and fertilize hearts ever,
Giving grace in everything ;
Touched with fire of true love, take us
To Thee, and in mercy make us
Holiness's offering !

Sire and Son's blest emanation 1
Be from sin our restoration,
When worn out, our sustentation,
And our comfort, when we mourn !

Love both pure and noble truly !
Heat that warms, but ne'er unduly !

May Thine unction heal those throughly,
Who with unchaste ardour burn !

Voice, that doth no sounds deliver!
Still small voice, that whisperest ever,
Saints inspiring to endeavour !

Voice of joy and sweetness ! never
Cease to sound within our heart !

Light, away all falsehood driving !
Light, to truth incentive giving !

Grant that— life, health, thence deriving,—
Of Thy brightness ever-living
All of us may have our part ! Amen.