All That Seek Christ, Your Eyes Erect

For the Feast of the Transfiguration and the Solemnity of the Epiphany

Quicúmque Christum quæritis from Cathemerinon by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

Primer, 1685.

Source: Orby Shipley, Annus Sanctus: Hymns of the Church for the Ecclesiastical Year. Vol. 1. (London and New York: Burns and Oates, 1884), Appendix p. 32.

All that seek Christ, your eyes erect,
On Thabor's mount your sight reflect ;
For there you may behold a sign
Of glory, which shall ever shine.

We there a radiant object see
Which cannot circumscribed be,
Endless, sublime, existing e'er
Or heaven, or chaos framed were.

This is the king whose sovereign sway
The Gentiles and the Jews obey ;
Promised to Abraham and his race
A grant which time shall not deface.

Him do the prophets' mouths display
W T ho seal the truth of what they say ;
His Father too doth witness give,
Bidding us hear him and believe.

May none thy glory, Christ, conceal,
Who dost thyself to babes reveal ;
The like unto the Father be,
And Holy Ghost eternally.

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