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LUX E TENEBRIS
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Yet I strive and struggle vainly
'Gainst its influence and might.
Who will save me from the terror
Of this silence and the night?

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Now, now, O God! I thank thee,
Comes the brightness of the Day:
The hell-born shadows vanish,
And my spirit dares to pray.