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 Omnipotence in human frailty exprest, Our earthly garden fragrant with celestial thyme. What Muse, though great Urania guide her flight, May dare the sacrosanct and awful height Of that mysterious sublime Within the secret counsels of the Infinite! Omniscence there supreme and sole Clasps the beginning and the whole Of Love beyond created sight, Uncreate and quintessential light! Before the splendor of that ray Cherub and seraph fall away Dazzled and broken by excess Of everpowering blessedness, Yet panting for the fulness of the bliss That breathes consuming fire from Love's unkenned abyss. Not through that fiery sphere my way, But here where shines the veiléd day, The flames of mystery insteeped In this our mortal clay; For in her maiden breast asleep Lies all the Love of Heaven's deep, The holy circle of her zone Incarnate Love's terrestrial throne.

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The great archangel veils his face Before her: "Hail, full of grace!" And Heaven is clasped of earth; While all the wheeling spheres with all their choirs Around her wheel seraphic fires. Eden rises to its second birth;