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Plain text of Hymn 15 God the Radiant

1 Resplendent with Thy wide-extending lustre, dispel the terrors of the fiends who hate us.

May lofty God be my guide and shelter, the easily-invoked, the good Protector.

2 Be Thou to us, while now the morn is breaking, be Thou a guardian when the sun hath mounted.

Accept, as men accept a true-born infant, my laud, O Radiant One, nobly born in body.

3 Bull, who beholdest men, through many mornings, among the dark ones shine forth red, O God.

Lead us, good Lord, and bear us over trouble: help us who long, Most Youthful One, to riches.

4 Shine forth, a Bull invincible, O God, winning by conquest all the forts and treasures,

Thou who art skilled in guiding, the chief high saving worship's Leader.

5 Bringing the angels hither, wisest Singer, bring Thou to us many and flawless shelters.

Bring vigour, like a car that gathers booty: bring us, O God, beauteous earth and heaven.

6 Swell, O Thou Bull, and give those powers an impulse, even earth and heaven who yield their milk in plenty,

Shining, O God, with Thy angels in clear effulgence. Let not a mortal's evil will obstruct us.

7 O God, as holy food to him who calls on Thee give wealth in cattle, lasting, rich in marvels.

To us be born a son and spreading offspring. O God, be this Thy gracious will to usward.