1 Do homage unto the Eye of the All-Seeing and the Friend: offer this solemn worship to the Mighty Lord,

Who seeth far away, the Ensign, made by Him. Sing praises to God for the sun, the sign of heaven.

2 May this my truthful speech guard me on every side wherever heaven and earth and days are spread abroad.

All else that is in motion finds a place of rest: the waters ever flow and ever mounts the sun.

3 No godless man from time remotest draws thee down when thou art driving forth with winged dappled steeds.

One lustre waits upon thee moving to the east, and, sun, thou arisest with a different light.

4 O Lord, by the light whereby thou scatterest gloom, and by the ray that impels every moving thing,

Keep far from us all feeble, worthless worship, and drive away disease and every evil dream.

5 Sent forth thou guardest well the Universe's law, and in thy wonted way arisest free from wrath.

When we address our prayers to Thee to-day, may the righteous favour this our purpose and desire.

6 This invocation, these our words may Heaven and Earth, and the waters and the winds hear.

Ne'er may we suffer want in presence of the sun, and, living happy lives, may we attain old age.

7 Cheerful in spirit, evermore, and keen of sight, with store of children, free from sickness and from sin,

Long-living, may we look upon thee, sun, uprising day by day, thou great as the Friend is!

8 May we live long and look upon thee still, thee, O Far-seeing One, bringing the glorious light,

The radiant sign, the spring of joy to every eye, as thou art mounting up o'er the high shining flood.

9 Thou by whose lustre all the world of life comes forth, and by thy beams again returns unto its rest,

O sun with the golden hair, ascend for us day after day, still bringing purer innocence.

10 Bless us with shine, bless us with perfect daylight, bless us with cold, with fervent heat and lustre.

Bestow on us, O Lord, varied riches, to bless us in our home and when we travel.

11 O Lord, to our living creatures of both kinds vouchsafe protection, both to bipeds and to quadrupeds,

That they may drink and eat invigorating food. So grant us health and strength and perfect innocence.

12 If by some grievous sin we have provoked our Lord, O righteous, with the tongue or thoughtlessness of heart,

That guilt, O Lord, lay upon the Evil One, on him who ever leads us into deep distress.