The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-01-16
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o Thou Eternal One whose presence bright
All space dnth oecupy-ail motions guide:
Unchanged through times all devastating fight,
Thou only God There Is no God beside.
Being above all b einEs Mighty One!
Whom p'oe can comprehend. and none explores
Who dIf'st existence With Tbysen alone
Embracing aii--uPporting-ruing DER
Being whom call Gost-and know no more.
In it, sublime research Philosophy
May raeasgr. out the ocean ieeT--may count
The sands or the suns rays-but God for thee
Iherr : no weight nor measure none can mount
Though kiDdIed by thy light, in vain would try
To triee thy councils infinite and dark;
And thoGsht IS Lost ere thought can soar 50 high,
Ken like past moments IN eternity
Thou Grorn prirnevaI nothingnsss, dd'st call
First chans, then existence Lord, on thee
Eternity hal its foundation all
sprung firth from 'ies Of Isht. Joy. harmony,
sole r=iB-au life, all beauty, thine,
Thy word created all and doth creates
Thy spsinaior hIIs all space With rays divine
Thou art. and vert and shait be glorious great!
Iif--siyins- DEMONSTRATING, Potentate
Thy chains the universe surround.
U, eid by thee. by thee inspired with breath
Thou the beginning with the end hast bound,
And beautifully mingled life and death
A. sparks mount upward from the fiery blaze,
30 suns born, worlds spring firth from thse.
And ss the sPrangles in the sunny rays,
Shine ruu1d the silver snow, the pageantry
of heavens bright army sIittcrs in thy praise
million torches lighted by thy hand
waB,Ier unwsariesi through the bIne abyss:
Thy thy power, accomplish thy command,
.,H gay with life, all eloquent with bliss;
'ghat shall call them, Piles of chrystal light?
\ gI,r..Gs company Of golden streams!
Lamps % CELESTIAL ether burning brightg
suns, lighting systems with tlssir joyous beams?
Hut thou, % those, art as the noon To night
Yes, a- a drop o water in the sea,
Ali this magnihesnes in thee Is IDst:-
What a thousand woriis to Thee,
And what am I. when Heavens unnumbered host,
ThouEh multiplied by my Tiads. and arrayed
In all the glory of subulest Thought,
Against thy grcatness-is a eypber brought
sgain-s innnity' What am then? NOught-
Nouynt But the edfuenee ofThy light, divine,
Perva.iiag WOrIis, hath reached my bosom too
Yes, in my spirit doth thy spirit shine
As shines the beam in a drop q dew,
Nought ! bat live and on hops Pinious hy,
Eager towards thy presence for Ia Thee
live AII breathe, and dwell aspiring high,
Eyen to the throne q thy Divinity.
7 am, God, add surely Thou must be
Thou directing. guiding an Thou art.
Direct my understanding then to thee;
Control my sI.irIt, guile my wandering heart
Tho but atom in immensity,
still am something fashioned by thy hand
I hoLI a middle rank. 'twixt heaven and earth,
On the last verge oG mortal being stan'i,
Close 10 the realm where Angels have their birth,
just Ou tbs boundary Of the spirit land
The chain Os being Is complete in me;
In me IS matters Last graiation lost.
Anil the next step i -pirit-Deity.
y command the lightning and m dust,
A monarch, anil n slave a worm, God
Whence came here, and how 50 marveOusly
Constructed and conceived unknown, This csod
Lives surely through some higher energy;
Foe from itself alone IL could not be-
Creator. Yes. Thy wisdom and thy wnri
Created me Thou source % life aud good
Thou spirit % my spirit, and my lord
Thy light, thy love, in their bright pleutitude
FIFd me with an immortal soul, to spring
over tlc abyss ol death, and bade il
The garments Of eternal day, and wing
Its heavenly hight beyond this little sphere,
Eyea in its source, TO Thee, its Author, Thee
o thought ineaab,e vision bIest!
(rhS' worthless conceptions all Of thee.)
Yet shall thy Swallowed image hlI our breast
ADd wait its homage 10 the Deity.
God thus alone my Iowly thoughts can soar;
Thus seek thy presence Being wise and gOod
Midst thy works, obey, adore
And when the tongue Is eloquent more,
The soul shall speak In tears of gratitude