For the feast of the Presentation, a song of Simeon:
The years stretch out in shadow; the days drag on toward night. O Father, do not let go until I see your light. For now I know but dimly— what shade our life has cast!— but keep your hand upon me until the night is past. The earth you made is turning, though slow the age is takes, so there must be a morning: Keep me until it breaks. And though my eyes are fading and fail to pierce the dark, yet keep me strongin waiting with vision in my heart. That what I cannot see here I still may stumble toward. I weaken more with each year, but make me strong in hope. And when I see your glory, the light I long have known, when mercy dawns before me, O Father, take me home!

Simeon and the Child by Benjamin West, brown and gray washes and pencil on paper, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54050254