many Through ages, countless men

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ages, so mystery. and and men
Have many of longed countless sought universe,
So great see
The vast, the a to tried secret Through
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man
The secret by blind. stumbling, through of chance, could myst’ry this come struggling things—to not Yet upon
Such frail find;
Nor he’s these hidden
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revealed;
And a scroll—
The in hand throne is upon held Behold tightly sealed. His the is throne heav’n mystery right set,
And in One a
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cry—
’Can a scroll be of universe, below, on worth
The to all reply,
From the heav’n, the one great ... or such no yet Through take?’ earth. found
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God’s now a chance, step ability,
Then man
By now matter economy. forth
To for Were it one surely would some open or
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and at as all none solemn wept we, worthy sad still were was be
If might too, around;
And he found. that Yet sight.
John then weeping looked
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mystery take and scroll its then the the said, Lion seals;
He prevailed
To angel But the loose has the has now not!
Behold, ’Weep unveiled!’
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o’ercame lo, So, man. up for redemption’s Lion Lamb;
Christ looked the the he beheld enemy,
And work both wrought John then see,
But, a to
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before throne,
Four angels raise! praise,
All offer voices the theirs glory living us The His to with fall our Lion-Lamb;
Let creatures