Cantique : God, th’ Father, Thou eternal O

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

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

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

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

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

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

God, th’ Father, Thou eternal O