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The to many of and vast, the ages, a longed mystery. sought so universe,
So secret great and men
Have tried
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through myst’ry these this things—to chance, stumbling, struggling man
The come Yet he’s hidden of by not secret find;
Nor frail blind. could upon
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is Behold His mystery sealed. scroll—
The throne revealed;
And hand set,
And throne tightly a is One upon held the in heav’n in right a
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take?’ Through found all below, earth. be of to cry—
’Can heav’n, the or ... yet a worth
The on great reply,
From one universe, scroll the such no
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surely now now it some step or chance, man
By matter ability,
Then would God’s for Were forth
To one open economy. a
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we, solemn looked still Yet he all too, none might sight.
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If at weeping was that wept
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its scroll seals;
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Behold, prevailed
To mystery the But then has the
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the So, lo, to o’ercame beheld up wrought see,
But, both for work a John then man. Lamb;
Christ the Lion he redemption’s enemy,
And looked
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His fall Lion-Lamb;
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