Thomas Tallis - Te lucis ante terminum (hymn for Compline Epiphany to Lent) (1550s?) POMERIUM Alexander Blachly, Director From CD “Music for the Tudor Queens” © 2015 Old Hall Recordings OHR003 Te lucis ante terminum, rerum creator poscimus, ut solita clementia sis presul ad custodiam. Procul recedant somnia et noctium fantasmata; hostemque nostrum comprime, ne polluantur corpora. Presta Pater omnipotens, per Iesum Christum Dominum; qui tecum in perpetuum regnat cum Sancto Spiritu. Amen. To you before the end of light Creator of the world, we pray that with your accustomed clemency you would our guard and keeper be. Let dreams recede then far away, also phantasms of the night; and restrain, we pray, our enemy, that our bodies uncorrupted stay. All-powerful Father, your promise keep through Jesus Christ our only Lord; who with you reigns perpetually, together with the Holy Ghost. Amen.