Hymnus Eucharisticus

Sung as the clock strikes 5 a.m. by Magdalen choir on the summit of Wolsey's Tower (Oxford) on May morning to greet the rising sun. Some say the custom dates from the reign of Henry VIII.; if this overshoots the mark, no one knows for certainty a more exact period.

Te Deum Patrem collmus,
Te laudibus prosequimur;
Qui corpus ciboriflcis,
Coelesti mentem gratia.

Hymnus Eucharisticus.

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