Classic Poem

GRACE Increate!
From whose vivific fire
All acts that to immortal glory tend
Their force acquire!

Hail, Life of life!
Hail, Paraclete divine!
All justice, sanctity, obedience, love,
And truth, are Thine.

Thou in the Blood
Of Him who died for men,
By sacramental element applied,
Dost wash us clean.

Thou to the deeds
Of every passing hour
In Thee perform'd, impartest merit new
And heavenly power.

From grace to grace,
O, grant me to proceed;
And with assisting hand my faltering steps
To Sion lead!

So may I mount
In peace the holy hill;
And safe at last by Life's eternal Fount,
There drink my fill!