by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Maffeo Barberini (1568 - 1644), as Urban VIII, Pope

Te lucis ante terminum
Language: Latin  after the Latin 
Te lucis ante terminum,
Rerum Creator poscimus,
Ut pro tua clementia
Sis præsul et custodia.

Procul recedant somnia,
Et noctium phantasmata;
Hostemque nostrum comprime,
Ne polluantur corpora.

Præsta, Pater piissime,
Patrique compar Unice,
Cum Spiritu Paraclito
Regnans per omne sæculum. Amen.

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  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Johann Wenzeslaus Kalliwoda.

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