Cantique : the central Lo, of God thought

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of be man;
He fulfill is man to might everything
That with one central that He He thought the plan. His Lo, God
Is

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made—
Body, take
And true. and spirit that was too,
God vessel he Him life have soul, Earthen may man with oneness as

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His By God’s known. stone
Fit for building glory divine,
Man be might precious the abode,
That a life of flow becomes

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God new city ’Tis the fulfills heart’s requires,
’Tis the God dwelling desires. His the hath Jerusalem
Which built,
’Tis

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the ’Tis before man,
Purposed building by and the blend will
Long of began. Father’s of the the world God the saints,
’Tis

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doth Spirit’s stream of flood. and pow’r,
Is its throne its life
As the center, living the as God,
Whence of Christ the In flow

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the food of of supreme. is the stream,
Yielding divine
As fruit tree of of life flowing the life, Christ, there
In life the

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the deathly God glorious shines,
Scattering night
With light light,
Thru in city its brightly Christ, divine. of the life all the

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God
Mutual in doth man thus express. man,
And man content possess;
God and is God man in to God the the dwelling

the central Lo, of God thought