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First born of the creating Voice	A
Minister of God's Spirit who wast sent	B
Waiting upon him first what time he went	B
Moving about mid the tumultuous noise	C
Of each unpiloted element	D
Upon the face of the void formless deep	E
Thou who didst come unbodied and alone	F
Ere yet the sun was set his rule to keep	E
Or ever the moon shone	F
Or e'er the wandering star flocks forth were driven	G
Thou garment of the Invisible whose skirt	H
Sweeps glory giving over earth and heaven	G
Thou comforter be with me as thou wert	H
When first I longed for words to be	I
A radiant garment for my thought like thee	I
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We lay us down in sorrow	J
Wrapt in the old mantle of our mother Night	K
In vexing dreams we strive until the morrow	J
Grief lifts our eyelids up and Lo the light	K
The sunlight on the wall And visions rise	L
Of shining leaves that make sweet melodies	M
Of wind borne waves with thee upon their crests	N
Of rippled sands on which thou rainest down	O
Of quiet lakes that smooth for thee their breasts	N
Of clouds that show thy glory as their own	F
O joy O joy the visions are gone by	P
Light gladness motion are reality	I
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Thou art the god of earth The skylark springs	Q
Far up to catch thy glory on his wings	Q
And thou dost bless him first that highest soars	R
The bee comes forth to see thee and the flowers	S
Worship thee all day long and through the skies	L
Follow thy journey with their earnest eyes	L
River of life thou pourest on the woods	T
And on thy waves float out the wakening buds	U
The trees lean toward thee and in loving pain	V
Keep turning still to see thee yet again	W
South sides of pines haunted all day by thee	I
Bear violins that tremble humanly	I
And nothing in thine eyes is mean or low	J
Where'er thou art on every side	X
All things are glorified	X
And where thou canst not come there thou dost throw	J
Beautiful shadows made out of the dark	Y
That else were shapeless now it bears thy mark	Y
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And men have worshipped thee	I
The Persian on his mountain top	Z
Waits kneeling till thy sun go up	A2
God like in his serenity	I
All giving and none gifted he draws near	B2
And the wide earth waits till his face appear	B2
Longs patient And the herald glory leaps	C2
Along the ridges of the outlying clouds	D2
Climbing the heights of all their towering steeps	D2
Sudden still multitudinous laughter crowds	D2
The universal face Lo silently	I
Up cometh he the never closing eye	P
Symbol of Deity men could not be	I
Farthest from truth when they were kneeling unto thee	I
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Thou plaything of the child	E2
When from the water's surface thou dost spring	F2
Thyself upon his chamber ceiling fling	F2
And there in mazy dance and motion wild	E2
Disport thyself etherial undefiled	E2
Capricious like the thinkings of the child	E2
I am a child again to think of thee	I
In thy consummate glee	I
How I would play with thee athirst to climb	G2
On sloping ladders of thy moted beams	D2
When through the gray dust darting in long streams	D2
How marvel at the dusky glimmering red	E2
With which my closed fingers thou hadst made	E2
Like rainy clouds that curtain the sun's bed	E2
And how I loved thee always in the moon	H2
But most about the harvest time	G2
When corn and moonlight made a mellow tune	H2
And thou wast grave and tender as a cooing dove	I2
And then the stars that flashed cold deathless love	I2
And the ghost stars that shimmered in the tide	E2
And more mysterious earthly stars	D2
That shone from windows of the hill and glen	W
Thee prisoned in with lattice bars	D2
Mingling with household love and rest of weary men	W
And still I am a child thank God to spy	P
Thee starry stream from bit of broken glass	D2
Upon the brown earth undescried	E2
Is a found thing to me a gladness high	P
A spark that lights joy's altar fire within	J2
A thought of hope to prophecy akin	J2
That from my spirit fruitless will not pass	D2
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Thou art the joy of age	K2
Thy sun is dear when long the shadow falls	D2
Forth to its friendliness the old man crawls	D2
And like the bird hung out in his poor cage	K2
To gather song from radiance in his chair	L2
Sits by the door and sitteth there	L2
His soul within him like a child that lies	D2
Half dreaming with half open eyes	D2
At close of a long afternoon in summer	M2
High ruins round him ancient ruins where	L2
The raven is almost the only comer	M2
Half dreams half broods in wonderment	E2
At thy celestial ascent	E2
Through rifted loop to light upon the gold	E2
That waves its bloom in some high airy rent	E2
So dreams the old man's soul that is not old	E2
But sleepy mid the ruins that infold	E2
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What soul like changes evanescent moods	D2
Upon the face of the still passive earth	N2
Its hills and fields and woods	D2
Thou with thy seasons and thy hours art ever calling forth	O2
Even like a lord of music bent	E2
Over his instrument	E2
Giving to carol now to tempest birth	N2
When clear as holiness the morning ray	P2
Casts the rock's dewy darkness at its feet	E2
Mottling with shadows all the mountain gray	P2
When at the hour of sovereign noon	H2
Infinite silent cataracts sheet	E2
Shadowless through the air of thunder breeding June	H2
When now a yellower glory slanting passes	D2
'Twixt longer shadows o'er the meadow grasses	D2
And now the moon lifts up her shining shield	E2
High on the peak of a cloud hill revealed	E2
Now crescent low wandering sun dazed away	P2
Unconscious of her own star mingled ray	P2
Her still face seeming more to think than see	I
Makes the pale world lie dreaming dreams of thee	I
No mood eternal or ephemeral	Q2
But wakes obedient at thy silent call	R2
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Of operative single power	M2
And simple unity the one emblem	S2
Yet all the colours that our passionate eyes devour	M2
In rainbow moonbow or in opal gem	T2
Are the melodious descant of divided thee	I
Lo thee in yellow sands Lo thee	I
In the blue air and sea	I
In the green corn with scarlet poppies lit	E2
Thy half souls parted patient thou dost sit	E2
Lo thee in dying triumphs of the west	E2
Lo thee in dew drop's tiny breast	E2
Thee on the vast white cloud that floats away	P2
Bearing upon its skirt a brown moon ray	P2
Gold regent thou dost spendthrift throw	J
Thy hoardless wealth of gleam and glow	J
The thousand hues and shades upon the flowers	D2
Are all the pastime of thy leisure hours	D2
The jewelled ores in mines that hidden be	I
Are dead till touched by thee	I
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Everywhere	L2
Thou art lancing through the air	L2
Every atom from another	M2
Takes thee gives thee to his brother	M2
Continually	I
Thou art wetting the wet sea	I
Bathing its sluggish woods below	J
Making the salt flowers bud and blow	J
Silently	I
Workest thou and ardently	I
Waking from the night of nought	E2
Into being and to thought	E2
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Influences	D2
Every beam of thine dispenses	D2
Potent subtle reaching far	U2
Shooting different from each star	U2
Not an iron rod can lie	P
In circle of thy beamy eye	P
But its look doth change it so	J
That it cannot choose but show	J
Thou the worker hast been there	L2
Yea sometimes on substance rare	L2
Thou dost leave thy ghostly mark	Y
Even in what men call the dark	Y
Ever doing ever showing	F2
Thou dost set our hearts a glowing	F2
Universal something sent	E2
To shadow forth the Excellent	E2
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When the firstborn affections	D2
Those winged seekers of the world within	J2
That search about in all directions	D2
Some bright thing for themselves to win	J2
Through pathless woods through home bred fogs	D2
Through stony plains through treacherous bogs	D2
Long long have followed faces fair	L2
Fair soul less faces vanished into air	L2
And darkness is around them and above	I2
Desolate of aught to love	I2
And through the gloom on every side	E2
Strange dismal forms are dim descried	E2
And the air is as the breath	V2
From the lips of void eyed Death	V2
And the knees are bowed in prayer	L2
To the Stronger than despair	L2
Then the ever lifted cry	P
Give us light or we shall die	P
Cometh to the Father's ears	D2
And he hearkens and he hears	D2
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As some slow sun would glimmer forth	O2
From sunless winter of the north	O2
We hardly trusting hopeful eyes	D2
Discern and doubt the opening skies	D2
From a misty gray that lies on	W2
Our dim future's far horizon	G
It grows a fresh aurora sent	E2
Up the spirit's firmament	E2
Telling through the vapours dun	G
Of the coming coming sun	G
Tis Truth awaking in the soul	X2
His Righteousness to make us whole	X2
And what shall we this Truth receiving	F2
Though with but a faint believing	F2
Call it but eternal Light	E2
'Tis the morning 'twas the night	E2
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All things most excellent	E2
Are likened unto thee excellent thing	F2
Yea he who from the Father forth was sent	E2
Came like a lamp to bring	F2
Across the winds and wastes of night	E2
The everlasting light	E2
Hail Word of God the telling of his thought	E2
Hail Light of God the making visible	Q2
Hail far transcending glory brought	E2
In human form with man to dwell	Y2
Thy dazzling gone thy power not less	D2
To show irradiate and bless	D2
The gathering of the primal rays divine	Z2
Informing chaos to a pure sunshine	Z2
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Dull horrid pools no motion making	F2
No bubble on the surface breaking	F2
The dead air lies without a sound	E2
Heavy and moveless on the marshy ground	E2
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Rushing winds and snow like drift	E2
Forceful formless fierce and swift	E2
Hair like vapours madly riven	G
Waters smitten into dust	E2
Lightning through the turmoil driven	G
Aimless useless yet it must	E2
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Gentle winds through forests calling	F2
Bright birds through the thick leaves glancing	F2
Solemn waves on sea shores falling	F2
White sails on blue waters dancing	F2
Mountain streams glad music giving	F2
Children in the clear pool laving	F2
Yellow corn and green grass waving	F2
Long haired bright eyed maidens living	F2
Light O radiant it is thou	A3
Light we know our Father now	A3
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Forming ever without form	B3
Showing but thyself unseen	C3
Pouring stillness on the storm	B3
Breathing life where death had been	J2
If thy light thou didst draw in	J2
Death and Chaos soon were out	E2
Weltering o'er the slimy sea	I
Riding on the whirlwind's rout	E2
In wild unmaking energy	I
God be round us and within	J2
Fighting darkness slaying sin	J2
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Father of Lights high lost unspeakable	Q2
On whom no changing shadow ever fell	Y2
Thy light we know not are content to see	I
Thee we know not and are content to be	I
Nay nay until we know thee not content are we	I
But when thy wisdom cannot be expressed	E2
Shall we imagine darkness in thy breast	E2
Our hearts awake and witness loud for thee	I
The very shadows on our souls that lie	P
Good witness to the light supernal bear	L2
The something 'twixt us and the sky	P
Could cast no shadow if light were not there	L2
If children tremble in the night	E2
It is because their God is light	E2
The shining of the common day	E2
Is mystery still howe'er it ebb and flow	J
Behind the seeing orb the secret lies	D2
Thy living light's eternal play	E2
Its motions whence or whither who shall know	J
Behind the life itself its fountains rise	D2
In thee the Light the darkness hath no place	D2
And we have seen thee in the Saviour's face	D2
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Enlighten me O Light why art thou such	D3
Why art thou awful to our eyes and sweet	E2
Cherished as love and slaying with a touch	D3
Why in thee do the known and unknown meet	E2
Why swift and tender strong and delicate	E2
Simple as truth yet manifold in might	E2
Why does one love thee and another hate	E2
Why cleave my words to the portals of my speech	E3
When I a goodly matter would indite	E2
Why mounts my thought of thee beyond my reach	E3
In vain to follow thee I thee beseech	E3
For God is light	E2