- Hic breve vivitur, hic breve
plangitur; hic breve fletur;
Non breve vivere, non breve
plaudere, retribuetur.
- O retributio! stat brevis actio,
vita perennis;
O retributio! Cœlica mansio stat
lue plenis.
- Sunt modo prœlia, postmodo
Præmia,—qualia? plena:
Plena refectio, nullaque passio,
nullaque pœna.
- Spe modo vivitur, et Sion angitur
a Babylone;
Nunc tribulatio, tunc recreatio,
sceptra, coronæ.
- Qui modo creditur, ipse videbitur
atque scietur,
Ipse videntibus atque scientibus
attribuetur.
- Mane videbitur, umbra fugabitur,
ordo patebit;
Mane nitens erit, et bona qui gerit,
ille nitebit.
- Nunc tibi tristia, tunc tibi
gaudia,—gaudia, quanta
Vox nequit edere, lumina cernere,
tangere planta.
- Pars mea, rex meus, in proprio
Deus ipse decore
Visus amabitur, atque videbitur
auctor in ore.
| - Brief life is here our portion;
Brief sorrow, short-lived care;
The life that knows no ending,
The tearless life, is there.
- O happy retribution!
Short toil, eternal rest;
For mortals and for sinners
A mansion with the blest!
- And now we fight the battle,
But then shall wear the crown
Of full and everlasting
And passionless renown;
- And now we watch and struggle,
And now we live in hope,
And Sion in her anguish
With Babylon must cope;
- But He whom now we trust in
Shall then be seen and known;
And they that know and see Him
Shall have Him for their own.
- The morning shall awaken,
The shadows shall decay,
And each true-hearted servant
Shall shine as doth the day.
- There grief is turned to pleasure,
Such pleasure as below
No human voice can utter,
No human heart can know.
- There God, our King and Portion,
In fulness of His grace,
Shall we behold forever,
And worship face to face.
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