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I. THE ‘UNKNOWN GOD.’
Behind this vast and wondrous frame
Of worlds whereof we nothing know
Except their aspect and their name,
Beneath this blind, bewildering show
Of worlds whereof we nothing know
Except their aspect and their name,
Beneath this blind, bewildering show
Of shapes that on the darkness trace
Transitions fair and fugitive
Lies hid that Power upon whose Face
No child of man shall gaze and live.
Transitions fair and fugitive
Lies hid that Power upon whose Face
No child of man shall gaze and live.
Like one on purple heights that stands
While mountain echoes round him roll
Screening his forehead with his hands
And following far through gulfs of soul
While mountain echoes round him roll
Screening his forehead with his hands
And following far through gulfs of soul
Some thought that still before him flies—
Thus, Power eternal and unknown,
We muse on Thine immensities
Yet find Thee in Thy Son alone.
Thus, Power eternal and unknown,
We muse on Thine immensities
Yet find Thee in Thy Son alone.
Emanuel, God with us, in Him
We see the Unmeasured, and the Vast
Like mountain outlines, large and dim,
On lifted mists at sunrise cast.
We see the Unmeasured, and the Vast
Like mountain outlines, large and dim,
On lifted mists at sunrise cast.
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‘The Word made Flesh!’ O Power Divine
Through Him alone we guess at Thee,
And deepliest feel that He is Thine
When throned upon His Mother's knee.
Through Him alone we guess at Thee,
And deepliest feel that He is Thine
When throned upon His Mother's knee.
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