Come true light. Come, eternal life. Come, mystery concealed.
Come, treasure unnamed. Come, reality outreached all telling.
Come, oh you whom our minds cannot grasp.
Come, everlasting joy. Come, light that casts no shadow.
Come,hope of all the redeemed. Come my very breath, my Total
life. Come, my soul's consoler.
Come, my glory, my everlasting delight.
Shining vesture, searing to demon touch,
cleaning bath, bathe me in purest tears most holy.
Stay with me, oh Sovereign, alone do never leave me:
for so, when those enemies of mine shall come who
always seek to devour my soul, it is You they will see
dwelling in me, and at once they will flee.
(Simeon the New Theologian)
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