Cantique : old Lord, of being is O Thy

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

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

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

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

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

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

old Lord, of being is O Thy