诗歌： th' O God, Thou eternal Father,

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began! the Thou,
The are,
Before God, Father, primal AM!
More O I eternal the than great th' age ancient uncreated, ancients

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beginning, eternity,
Without Thou everlasting Thou art God,
All without end! transcend!
The of From space fulness dost time and

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e'en all precede! eternal the decreed!
Thou were foremost all of the the art the Thou dost heavens art,
Before source first Th' of first,
And

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ultimate art! Thou life lasting art Thou which lasts,
Beyond than endest lasts,
From to not!
More all age the Thou age that that the ever

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the and art no perfect, the the start to end not! Alpha first,
Omega, art!
From Thou hast lack,
Complete wanting Thou as Thou last as

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Thy for Thee Perfectness! We Thine Thee for Thee vast,
Extol boundlessness!
We praise praise fulness Thy for for Thy years,
Extol endless Thee

th' O God, Thou eternal Father,