O Holy Spirit God most high

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Adsis superne Spiritus, Pater benigne pauperum. [Whitsuntide.] An anonymous hymn in the Paris Breviary, 1736, for Whitsuntide at Compline. It is given in full in Cardinal Newman's Hymni Ecclesiae, 1838 and 1865.
Translations in common use:—
2. 0 Holy Spirit, God most High. By Wm. Cooke, made for and first published in the Hymnary, 1872, No. 327, in 5 stanzas of 4 1ines.

--Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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The Sodalist's Hymnal: containing a collection of Catholic hymns set to oringinal and selected harmonized melodies, also The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, The Vesper Compline Office ... (1887), p.56