Nancy Wertsch: Music
3. Joy (Sayings of the Wise)
(C-159.)
excerpt from “Majesty Divine!” by Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)
Full of glory, full of wonders,
Majesty divine!
Mid thine everlasting thunders
How Thy lightnings shine!
Shoreless ocean! Who shall sound thee?
Thine eternity is round Thee,
Majesty divine! Majesty divine!
Thine own self forever filling
With self-kindled flame,
In Thyself thou art distilling
unctions without name!
Without worshiping of creatures
Without veiling of Thy features,
God always the same!
'Mid Thine uncreated morning,
Like a trembling star
I behold creation's dawning
Glimmering from afar;
Nothing giving, nothing taking,
Nothing changing, nothing breaking
Waiting at time's bar!
Splendours upon splendours beaming
Change and intertwine;
Glories over glories streaming
All translucent shine! All translucent shine!
[From the poem entitled “The Vision of Godhead” by Frederick William Faber]
Myriad, myriad angels raise
Happy hymns of wond'ring praise,
Ever through eternal days.