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THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 PRESENTED BY 
 
 PROF. CHARLES A. KOFOID AND 
 
 MRS. PRUDENCE W. KOFOID 
 
Digitized by the Internet Archive 
 
 in 2007 with funding from 
 
 IVIicrosoft Corporation 
 
 http://www.archive.org/details/addisonshymnOOaddirich 
 
ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL, 
 
 LATIN LYRICS. 
 
 WINTER SPEECHES. 
 1851, 
 
I 
 
 ADDISON'S HYMN. 
 
 When all thy mercies, O my God, 
 
 My rising soul surveys ; 
 Transported with the view, I'm lost 
 
 In wonder, love, and praise. 
 
 O how shall words with equal warmth 
 
 The gratitude declare. 
 That glows within my ravish'd heart ? 
 
 But Thou canst read it there. 
 
 Thy providence my life sustain'd, 
 
 And all my wants redrest. 
 When in the silent womb I lay, 
 
 And hung upon the breast. 
 
 To all my weak complaints and cries, 
 
 Thy mercy lent an ear. 
 Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learnt 
 
 To form themselves in pray'r. 
 
 Unnumber'd comforts to my soul 
 
 Thy tender care bestow'd. 
 Before my infant heart conceived 
 
 From whom those comforts flow'd. 
 
 When in the slipp'ry paths of youth 
 With heedless steps I ran. 
 
 Thine arm unseen convey'd me safe. 
 And led me up to man. 
 
IDEM LATINE REDDITUM. ; ^ 5^/ 
 
 Te Creatorem, Genitor, Tuaeque 
 Mens inexpletum meditata dextras 
 Dona, nequicquam stupet insolent! 
 Concita motu. 
 
 Quae Tibi voces satis adfluentes 
 Promerent laudem meritam, sub alto 
 Corde flagrantem, nisi Tu vel intus 
 Omnia nosses ? 
 
 Provida infantem Tua sublevabant 
 Numina, et fotum gremio benigna 
 Mente curasti, vel adhuc latentem 
 Matris in alvo. 
 
 Ante quam mutiE didicere voces 
 Exprimi blanda prece, Tu secundam 
 Leniter moestis, Pater, annuisti 
 Questibus aurem. 
 
 Munerum dotes animo ter amplas 
 Cura felici dedit alma, necdum 
 Conscio quisnam fuerit bonorum 
 Providus auctor. 
 
 Me parum cautis temere insequentem 
 Passlbus cursum indocilis juventse, 
 Dextra ad aetatem bene certa duxit 
 Usque virilem, 
 
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Through hidden dangers, toils, and deaths, 
 
 It gently clear'd my way. 
 And through the pleasing snares of vice. 
 
 More to be fear'd than they. 
 
 When worn with sickness, oft hast Thou 
 With health renewM my face, 
 
 And when in sins and sorrows sunk. 
 Revived my soul with grace. 
 
 Thy bounteous hand with worldly bliss 
 
 Has made my cup run o'er. 
 And in a kind and faithful friend 
 
 Has doubled all my store. 
 
 Ten thousand thousand precious gifts 
 
 My daily thanks employ : 
 Nor is the least a cheerful heart, 
 
 That tastes those gifts with joy. 
 
 Through every period of my life 
 
 Thy goodness I'll pursue ; 
 And after death in distant worlds 
 
 The glorious theme renew. 
 
 When nature fails, and day and night 
 
 Divide thy works no more. 
 My ever-grateful heart, O Lord, 
 
 Thy mercy shall adore. 
 
 Through all eternity to Thee 
 
 A joyful song I'll raise. 
 For, oh ! eternity's too short 
 
 To utter all thy praise. 
 
Sive lucentem pedibus parasti 
 Tramitem cjecas per acuta mortis, 
 Seu per obstantes laqueos, vagaeque 
 Retia fraudis. 
 
 Tu laborantem made genarum 
 Flore formoso recreas, et arctis 
 Spem mihi vinclis scelerum illigato, 
 Alme ! dedisti. 
 
 Munerum dives Tua sat superque 
 Dextra abundantem pateram coronat, 
 Insuper gazas cumulans amico 
 Fausta fideli. 
 
 Mille donorum mihi ter quaterque 
 Promovent gratam sine fine laudem, et 
 Quo nihil majus, Tua posse laetum 
 Sumere dona. 
 
 Saeculum vitae meritis per omne 
 Prosequar curam numeris benignam ; 
 Te per amotos, fugiente vita, 
 Prosequar orbes. 
 
 Turn simul noctes, vice cum diurna, 
 Desinent notes statuisse fines, 
 Vota persolvam pia, Te, Tuumque 
 Numen adorans. 
 
 Te, Deus ! versu recinam canoro, 
 Te per annorum seriem perennem, 
 S^cla si possint Tibi sempiterna 
 Dicere laudes. 
 
 W. W. CArEs. 
 
HYMNUS. AD CREATOREM. 
 
 Te, Deus, multa prece mens, Tuumque 
 Prosequens numen stupet, atque miro 
 Turbidum visu trepidans, potentem 
 
 Laudat, amatque. 
 
 Unde vox adsit mihi digna grati 
 Cordis occultos aperire fontes ? 
 Tu tamen, Tu scis aiiimos, raeumque 
 Noscis amorem. 
 
 Providus vitam mihi Tu dedisti, 
 Sive me includens uterus tenebat, 
 Sive pendentem gremio benignus 
 
 Respicis Auctor. 
 
 Fletibus primum, Pater, annuisti. 
 Ante quam sanctas didicisset artes 
 Mens, quibus sciret minus impotenteiu 
 Fingere questum. 
 
 Tu salutem, — et, si puero quid olim 
 Adfuit grati, Tua cura fudit, 
 Nescium quamvis fugeret beati 
 
 Fontis origo. 
 
 Mox ubi incertis pedibus juventae 
 Semitas fidens nimium premebam, 
 Caeca firmavit, titubante gressu, 
 
 Dextera plantam ; 
 
Ilia per luctus, et amara vitae 
 Expedit captum laqueis dolosis, 
 Prava quos oftert metui Voluptas 
 Dignior illis. 
 
 Saepe confecto macie suprema 
 Reddidit notos inopina vultus 
 Gratia, et luctu vitiisque niersum 
 Alma refecit. 
 
 Gaudiis longura mea, Te ministro. 
 Plena jam spumat patera ; atque dextra 
 Duplicat gazas, mihi qu^e fidelem 
 
 PraBStet amicum. 
 
 Mille Tu donis, pretiosus emptor, 
 Postulas laudem, et, potiora cunctis. 
 Integrum donas animum, fruique 
 Posse paratis. 
 
 Cantibus queis Te juvenis solebam 
 Prosequor tandem senior, nee unquam 
 Ipsa mors ob^tans prohibebit altum 
 Tollere carmen. 
 
 Concidet mundus ; tenebrse diesque 
 Desinent horis posuisse metas ; 
 Desinet nunquam Tibi cor perennes 
 
 Reddere honores. 
 
 Ergo in aeternum meritas referre 
 Sit mihi grates, mihi nam que vitae 
 Cursus aeternae brevior volenti 
 
 Dicere laudes. 
 
 H.W.LORD. 
 
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