Cantique : God, th’ Father, eternal Thou O

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

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

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

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

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

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

God, th’ Father, eternal Thou O