The Seven Days, or the Old and New Creation By the author of "The Cathedral" [i.e. Isaac Williams] |
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Invocation.
O Thou that dwell'st in uncreated Light,
Whose habitation is eternity,
In unapproached glory infinite,
Father, and Son, and Spirit, One and Three,
When things were not Thou gavest them to be,
Setting them bounds of form and time and space,
And call'dst them good.—Grant me in them to see
And speak of Thine own goodness; by Thy grace
To read in them Thy will, through them to seek Thy face.
Whose habitation is eternity,
In unapproached glory infinite,
Father, and Son, and Spirit, One and Three,
When things were not Thou gavest them to be,
Setting them bounds of form and time and space,
And call'dst them good.—Grant me in them to see
And speak of Thine own goodness; by Thy grace
To read in them Thy will, through them to seek Thy face.
For these Thy works that on our senses crowd
Are syllables that speak the Eternal Mind,
Could we but read aright; but such a cloud
Our mortal vision dims, like men half blind
We stretch our hands to Thee, and cannot find;
Yet round Thy throne one chaunt of mystery
Sing all Thy works and answer sad mankind,
“The well of endless life it is with Thee,
And in Thy Light divine man too the light shall see.”
Are syllables that speak the Eternal Mind,
Could we but read aright; but such a cloud
Our mortal vision dims, like men half blind
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Yet round Thy throne one chaunt of mystery
Sing all Thy works and answer sad mankind,
“The well of endless life it is with Thee,
And in Thy Light divine man too the light shall see.”
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