I am very happy to share that a man named Matthew Pfeifer has versified George Buchanan’s “Morning Hymn to Christ” that I recently posted as “Sprung from Fairest Father.” His translation makes for quite a nice hymn text. I don’t have his permission to post the whole thing, but you can find it here. I’d be happy to post all of it here at TCI if it is ok with Mr. Pfeifer, but, for the time being, here is the first stanza.
Sprung from fairest Father forth,
like to Him in highest worth!
Light from Light is shed abroad,
very God of very God!
Please do go have a look at the rest of it. Many thanks to Mr. Pfeifer for sharing.
Update:
Mr. Pfeifer has given permission to post his complete text here.
Sprung from fairest Father forth,
like to Him in highest worth!
Light from Light is shed abroad,
very God of very God!Lo, withdraws the night, and shines
now the dawn where light designs:
heaven, earth are crimson-rayed,
what was darkly hid, displayed!Yet befogs us ignorance
’round our hearts, as dark as dense;
yet our mind is sunk in clouds,
gloom of error nigh enshrouds.Rise! O Sun most pure, arise!
Give what light befits our skies;
come, illuminate our night,
error’s shade shake from our sight!Melt, that frightful cold may yield
from our heart, and from its field
cleanse what humors there malign
by your lamp with heat benign!Thus may show’rs from heaven strew
nectar as the blessèd dew,
hundredfold again to lead
forth to light the heav’nly seed!
