詩歌： Lord, Thy old being of is O

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lord, Thy old being of is O