good morning

 A festive chirruping announces the day,

singing in the light of dawn.

Christ spurs on the soul,

inviting us to a rebirth, this day.

Arise from your beds, he urges,

where a feeble languor makes you inert.

Be watchful, chaste, good, and sober;

for I am close to you.

Let us invoke Jesus, aloud,

sorrowing, praying, repentant;

an ardent invocation

keeps a pure heart on the alert.

O Christ, drive away sleep,

break the chains of night,

make good the ancient fault,

bring to us new light.