Hymn for this school year: Now With Creation's Morning Song

Ambleside Online suggests a few hymns to learn each term, but this is one we picked out ourselves. It seems to embody what we'd like this school year to be.


Now With Creation's Morning Song

Now with creation’s morning song
Let us, as children of the day,
With wakened heart and purpose strong,
The works of darkness cast away.

O may the morn so pure, so clear,
Its own sweet calm in us instill!
A guileless mind, a heart sincere,
Simplicity of word and will.

And ever, as the day glides by,
May we the busy senses rein;
Keep guard upon the hand and eye,
Nor let the conscience suffer stain.

Grant us, O God, in love to Thee,
Clear eyes to measure things below;
Faith, the invisible to see;
And wisdom, Thee in all to know.

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Author information from Cyberhymnal: Words: Au­re­li­us Pru­den­ti­us (348-cir­ca 413) (Nox et ten­e­brae et nu­bi­la); trans­lat­ed from La­tin to Eng­lish by Ed­ward Cas­wall, Ly­ra Ca­thol­i­ca, 1849. The mod­i­fied trans­la­tion by Sam­u­el Long­fel­low, in his Hymns of the Spir­it, 1864, is giv­en be­low.

Music: Fes­tus, from a Ger­man chor­ale in the Mo­rav­i­an Psalt­er (MI­DI, score). My note: this is not the easiest tune to learn! Try singing along with Cyberhymnal until you get it.