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Celestial Word, to this our earth 
Celestial Word, to this our earth sent down from God's eternal clime, to save mankind by mortal birth into a world of change and time; 
Enlighten our hearts; vain hopes destroy; and in thy love's consuming fire fill all the soul with heavenly joy, and melt the dross of low desire. 
So when the Judge of quick and dead shall bid his awful summons come, to whelm the guilty soul with dread, and call the blessed to their home, 
Saved from the whirling, black abyss, forevermore to us be given to share the feast of saintly bliss, and see the face of God in heaven. 
To God the Father and the Son our songs with one accord we raise; and to the Holy Spirit, One with them, be ever equal praise. 
Latin, fifth or sixth century; trans. William John Courthope (1842-1917)