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‘ALL JOYOUS IN THE REALMS OF DAY’
“Hominum divomque pater.”
Virgil.
All joyous in the realms of day,
The radiant angels sing,
In incorruptible array,
Before the Eternal King.
The radiant angels sing,
In incorruptible array,
Before the Eternal King.
Who, hymn'd by archangelic tongues,
In majesty and might,
The subject of ten thousand songs,
Sits veil'd in circling light.
In majesty and might,
The subject of ten thousand songs,
Sits veil'd in circling light.
Benignly great, serenely dread,
Amid th' immortal choir,
How glory plays around his head
In rays of heavenly fire!
Amid th' immortal choir,
How glory plays around his head
In rays of heavenly fire!
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Before the blaze of Deity
The deathless legions bend,
And to the grand co-equal Three
Their choral homage lend.
The deathless legions bend,
And to the grand co-equal Three
Their choral homage lend.
They laud that God, who has no peers,
High—holy—searchless—pure;
Who has endur'd for countless years,
And ever will endure:
High—holy—searchless—pure;
Who has endur'd for countless years,
And ever will endure:
Who spoke, and fish, fowl, beast, in pairs,
Or swam, or flew, or trod;
Space glitter'd with unnumber'd stars,
And heaving oceans flow'd.
Or swam, or flew, or trod;
Space glitter'd with unnumber'd stars,
And heaving oceans flow'd.
Then let us join our feeble praise
To that which angels give;
And hymns to that great Parent raise,
In whom we breathe and live!
To that which angels give;
And hymns to that great Parent raise,
In whom we breathe and live!
C. T.
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