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 THE ADDRESS TO BRAHMA. impious in resistless might Was troubling Heaven and Earth with wild affright, To high abode, by  led, The mournful Deities for refuge fled; As when the Day-God's loving beams awake The Lotus slumbering on the silver lake. So deigned his glorious face to show, And poured sweet comfort on their looks of woe. Then nearer came the suppliant Gods to pay Honour to him whose face turns every way: They bowed them Ioav before the Lord of Speech, And sought with truthful words his heart to reach:— "Glory to Thee! before the world was made. One single form thy Majesty displayed— Next Thou, to body forth the mystic Three, Didst fill three Persons—Glory, Lord, to Thee! Unborn and unbegotten! from thy hand The fruitful seed rained down; at thy command From that small germ o'er quickening waters flung All things that move, and all that move not, sprung;