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...thee, Bright effluence of bright essence0 increate, Or hear'st thou, rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun. Before...from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool,though long detained In that obscure sojourn, while...

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...thee, " Bright effluence of bright essence increate. " Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, " Whose fountain who shall tell > Before the sun, "...deep, " Won from the void and formless infinite." " And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer "' Before all temples the upright heart and pure, "...

...heaven, first-born, Or of the Eternal co-eternal beam, Bright effluence of bright essence increate— Thy fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the...mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep.'"—pp. 192, 193. Our author states, in relation to the nature, hahit, and character of light...

...in thee, 5 Bright effluence of hright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before...at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest ID The rising world of waters dark and deep, 2. ' Or may I without hlame call thee the coeternal heam...

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...in thee Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure etherial stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before...from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detained In that obscure sojourn, while...

...in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before...from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long'.detain'd In that obscure sojourn; while...