Cantique : O Father, th’ God, Thou eternal

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

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

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

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

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

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

O Father, th’ God, Thou eternal