The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-12-16
GOD.

bright
All space doth occupy, all motion guide
Unchanged through times all-deyastat-
ing fight!
Thou only God-there is no god beside!
Being above all beings! Mighty One,
Wnom none can comprehend and none
explore!
Who fll'st existence with myself Alone,
Embracing all, supporting, ruling DER
Being whom we call God, and know no
more.
In its sublime research, philosophy
May measure out the ocean-deep-may
count
The sands or the suns rays-but, God!
for Thee
There is no weight o measure; none
Up to Thy mysteries; Reasons bright
Though kindled by Thy light, in vain
would try
To trace Thy counsels, infinite and
dark:
And thought is lost ere thought can
soar so high,
Even like past moments in eternity.
Thou from primeval nothingness didst
First chaos. then existence-Lord! in
Eternity had it's foundations; all
Sprung forth from Thee-of light, joy,
harmony,
Sole original life, all beauty Thine,
Thy word created all and doth create:
Thy splendor fills all space with rays
divine:
Thou art. and vert, and shalt be, Clio
rious! Great!
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Thy chains the unmeasured universe
surround
Upheld by Thee, by Thee inspired with
breath;
Thou the beginning with the end hast
bound,
And beautifully mingled life and DEATH!
AS sparks mount upward from the
fiery blaze,
forth from Thee;
And as the spangles in the sunny rays
Shine round the silver snow, the pa
geantry
Of heavens bright army glitters in
Thy praise.
A million torches lighted by Thy hand
Wander unwearied through the blue
They W Thy power. accomplish Thy
command,
All gay with lite. all eloquent with
bliss.
What shall we call them? Piles Of
crystal light
A glorious company Of golden streams,
Lamps of celestial ether burning
bright
Suns lighting systems with their joy
Gus beams?
But Thou to these are as the noon to
light,
Yes. as a drop of water in the sea,
All this magnificence in The is lost
What are ten thousand worlds compar-
ed to Thee?
And what am I, acknowledgements I'M
numbered host,
Though multiplied by myriads and ar
rayed
In all the glory Of sublimest thought,
Is but an atom in the balance. weighed
Agoinst thy greatness, is a cipher
Against inhnity! What am I, then?
Naught.
Naught! But the %efiuence of Thy light
divine.
Pervading worlds, hath reached my
Yes; in my spirit doth Thy spirit shine,
AS shines the sunbeam in a drop Of
Naught! but I live, and on hopes pin
ions fly
Eager toward Thy presence-for in
Thee
I live and breathe, and dwell; aspiring
high,
Even to the throne of Thy divinity.
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Thou art directing, guiding an-Thou
art! ..-...s. E..
Direct my understanding then to Thee;
Control my spirit, guide my wandering
heart;
Though but an atom midst immensely,
Still I am something fashioned by Thy
hand!
I hold a middle rank 'twixt heaven
and earth
On the last verge of mortal being stand
Close to the realms where angels have
@s's their birth,
Just on the boundaries of the spirit
land! .s.
The chain Of being is complete in me
In me is matters last graduation lost,
And the next step is s~pirit-deity!
I can command the lightning, and am
dust!
A monarch and a slave-a worm, a god!
Whence came I here, and how? so
marvelously
Constructed and conceived? unknown
this, clod
Lives surely through some higher en-
ergy:
For from itself alone it could not be!
Creator, yes! Thy wisdom and Thy
word
Created me-! Thou source Of life and
good!
Thou spirit of my spirit, and my Lord
Thy light, Thy love, in their bright
plentitude
Filled me with an immortal soul, to