Title: As the bird, whose clarion gay

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As the bird, whose clarion gay 
As the bird, whose clarion gay sounds before the dawn is grey, Christ, who brings the spirit's day, calls us, close at hand: ‘Wake!’ he cries, ‘and for my sake, from your eyes dull slumber shake! Sober, righteous, chaste, awake! At the door I stand!’ 
Lord to thee we lift on high fervent prayer and bitter cry: hearts aroused to pray and sigh may not slumber more: break the sleep of death and time, forged by Adam's ancient crime; and the light of Eden's prime to the world restore! 
Now before thy throne, while we ask, upon our bended knee, that this blessing granted be, and thy grace implore; unto God the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Three in One, One in Three, be glory done, Now and evermore. 
William John Courthope (1842-1917) 
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