Christe, qui lux es et dies

 Christe, qui lux es et dies
 Fideliumque requies
 Nos visita.
 Tu furoris temperies
 Tu dulcoris planities
 Nunc excita.
 Posse tuum precipita
 Depredentes qui nos ita
 Vituperant.
 Sicut per te fruit vita
 Patribus nostris reddita,
 Qui tunc erant
 Nec tueri se poterant,
 Sed ad te reclamaverant,
 Deus fortis,
 Sie cave, ne nos atterant
 Qui nos in guerris lacerant
 Nunc subortis,
 Et adire nexu mortis,
 Cuius sumus jam in portis,
 Nos protegas.
 Gentem serves tue sortis,
 Tui fratris ac consortis
 Causam regas
 Qui malos a te segregas
 Nec justis opem denegas,
 Legis lator.
 Proditores nunc detegas
 Horumque visum contegas,
 Consolatur,
 Danielis visitator
 Puerorumque salvator
 In fornace,
 Per abacuth confortator.
 Sis pro nobis preliator
 Et dimittas nos in pace.

 Veni, creator spiritus
 Flentium audi gemitus,
 Quos nequiter gens misera
 Destruit; veni, prospera.
 Jam nostra virtus deficit
 Nec os humanum sufficit
 Ad narrandum obprobria
 Que nobis dant vecorida,
 Diviso, cupiditas
 Fideliumque raritas,
 Unde flentes ignoramus
 Quid agere debeamus.
 Circumdant nos inimici,
 Sed et nostri domestici
 Conversi sunt in predones:
 Leopardi et leones,
 Lupi, milvi et aquile
 Rapiunt omne reptile.
 Consumunt nos carbunculi,
 Ad te nostri sunt oculi:
 Perde gentem hanc rapacem,
 Jhesu, redemptor seculi,
 Et da nobis pacem.

 Tribulatio proxima est et non est qui adjuvet.

by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377)

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by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377) , "Christe, qui lux es et dies" [four-voice motet]

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