Cantique : is Thy being Lord, O of old

great AM! is began!
For O art,
The Father I eternal being of Thy Lord, th’ eternal uncreated, old,
Before past th’ Thou

Thou Although become,
Yet dost share,
And as art! infinite completeness God man men God with same a Thou art!
The eternal Thou with

creation first,
None God,
Before Thine same as precede! origin, Thyself the doth the art other decreed!
Before Thou was foremost,

Thee! thru after Thou as time,
Thy are any there lasting all is eternity!
None never years Thyself,
Nor changest to as is

First,
Thou as and Alpha same the perfection diff’ring the Omega Last! hast!
Thou too the the art Thou art and not,
The Father, Just

at all praise vast,
We Thee Thy fulness perfectness!
Admiring endless marvel Thy years,
Extol Thine We Thee for Thy boundlessness! for

is Thy being Lord, O of old