As darkness and storm is his will that on earth is done,

As a cloud is the face of his strength.

King of kings, holiest of holies, and mightiest of might,

Lord of the lords of thine heaven that are humble in thy sight,

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Hast thou set not an end for the path of the fires of the sun,

To appoint him a rest at length?

[Str. 3.

Hast thou told not by measure the waves of the waste wide sea,

And the ways of the wind their master and thrall to thee?

[Pg 45]

Hast thou filled not the furrows with fruit for the world's increase?

Has thine ear not heard from of old or thine eye not read

The thought and the deed of us living, the doom of us dead?

Hast thou made not war upon earth, and again made peace?

[Ant. 3.

Therefore, O father, that seest us whose lives are a breath,

Take off us thy burden, and give us not wholly to death.

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For lovely is life, and the law wherein all things live,

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