Occasional verse, moral and sacred Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet] |
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CREATION A MYSTERY. |
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CREATION A MYSTERY.
From being nothing, and a thing of nought,I am, of nothing, to existence brought:
But how or why into this state I came,
A thinking substance, like a thinking flame,
I cannot tell; except it be from this,
That as from nothing every thing that is,
Save that alone, by which whatever lives,
Its being takes, and every form receives.
So 'tis to this, whatever that may be,
I owe my nature and my entity.
But then for those what 'tis to that I owe,
'Tis that must tell me, or I cannot know:
And that has told—the sum of which is this,
“From first to last, I'm not my own, but His!”
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