I O MAJESTY of Heaven! Whose bright dominion Is over all the peoples of the earth, A myriad worlds beneath each streaming pinion! O Thou Who dost renew in us at birth The vital spark that germinates unseen, Lighting with torch divine each nuptial hearth, And breathing into substances terrene The Spirit which transmuteth our dull clay, An effluence of Thine everlasting sheen. The Two Eternities of Night and Day Are in Thine hands, and in Thy holy keeping The unnumber'd souls that now in Thee are sleeping. II O Thou Omniscience, Incomprehensible! Creator Beneficent to Thee we bow. Ruler of suns and systems inconceptible! The girdle of the worlds about Thy brow! For aeons upon aeons round Thy throne The stars have circled as they circle now. Thou Genesis of Life! Thyself unknown,— What Primal Deity created @3Thee@1? Father and Son, Dividual yet One! Our only merit is to bend the knee. Truths that we here may never comprehend, Thou wilt interpret at the journey's end. III Be Thou our guide, and bright the way appears! Teach us to worship Thee with faith profound! Thou Who dost gild for us the shining years, Plenty and peace in Thy diurnal round. Flame on our offering! Light it from above! Accept the victims at Thine altar bound! Gladly they speed to meet the All-Father's love, To know at last the Aztlan of their dreams! Grant, Lord, that each shall in Thy presence prove The joy that death's brief agony redeems! Whilst we, who humbly wait on Thee with prayer, Shall feel Thy Spirit touch us unaware. |