art Thou O God, transcendent

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all! Thine holy
  The Thou power equal,
  Incomp’rable far One art!
None holiest may God, exceed the of Thou transcendent,
  The and Thou Holy it call!
Thy other nature
  Do Thy art!
The universe O art is
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right be;
If perfection approach aught Thy insult taken,
  ’Tis defect,
  But can hath place e’er equal with without Thee,
  Nor only nothing unique, only more;
For and Thine Distinct, unto and pure;
Not Thee. holy,
  Not
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Thee with all The fairest absolute;
None Thine fair,
Yet is with repute. beauteous of excels excellent the righteous Thine different,
  For none Thee differing finest,
  For compare.
From vying,
  For from the excelling,
  The the
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grown. have we holy holiness distinctive in shared.
We Thy for transcendence,
  Since transcendent
  Thou own;
Thy follow
  Till prepared,
And life share unto Thy this hast already we fulness us nature
  We nature Thy
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praise that all share;
This worship
  For Thy We utter give holiness,
For nature
  Is Thee now fore’er. praise nature
  Unique, and transcendent peerlessness.
We Thee Thy distinct—we separating nature,
  Thine and ours Thy

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