Cantique : Thou eternal th’ Father, God, O

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thou eternal th’ Father, God, O