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LOVE
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Thou, from the first, unborn, undying Love,Albeit we gaze not on thy glories near,
Before the face of God didst breathe and move,
Though night and pain and ruin and death reign here.
Thou foldest like a golden atmosphere,
The very throne of the eternal God;
Passing thro' thee, the edicts of His fear
Are mellow'd into music, borne abroad
By the loud winds, though they uprend the sea,
Even from his centred deeps; thine empery
Is over all; thou wilt not brook eclipse;
Thou goest and returnest to His Lips
Like lightening; thou dost ever brood above
The silence of all hearts, unutterable Love.
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