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Thou, from the first, unborn, undying love, / Albeit we gaze not on thy glories near, / Before the face of God didst breath and move, / Though night and pain and ruin and death reign here. / Thou foldest, like a golden atmosphere, / The very throne of the eternal God: / Passing through thee the edicts of his fear / Are mellowed into music, borne abroad / By the loud winds, though they uprend the sea, / Even from his central deeps: thine empery / Is over all: thou wilt not brook eclipse; / Thou goest and returnest to His Lips / Like lightning: thou dost ever brood above / The silence of all hearts, unutterable Love.