Hymn: O th’ Thou God, eternal Father,

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

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

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

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

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

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

O th’ Thou God, eternal Father,