12. The Eternal Word

Amid the eternal silences
God's endless Word was spoken;
None heard but He who always spake,
And the silence was unbroken.
Oh marvellous! Oh worshipful!
No song or sound is heard,
But everywhere and every hour,
In love, in wisdom, and in power,
The Father speaks His dear Eternal Word!

For ever in the eternal land
The glorious day is dawning;
For ever is the Father's Light
Like an endless outspread morning.
Oh marvellous! Oh worshipful!
No song or sound is heard.
But everywhere and every hour.
In love, in wisdom, and in power,
The Father speaks His dear Eternal Word!

From the Father's vast tranquillity,
In light coequal glowing,
The kingly consubstantial Word
Is unutterably flowing;.
Oh marvellous! Oh worshipful!
No song or sound is heard,
But everywhere and every hour,
In love, in wisdom, and in power,
The Father speaks His dear Eternal Word 1

For ever climbs that Morning Star
Without ascent or motion;
For ever is its daybreak shed
On the Spirit's boundless ocean.
Oh marvellous! Oh worshipful!
No song or sound is heard.
But everywhere and every hour,
In love, in wisdom, and in power.
The Father speaks His dear Eternal Word!

O Word! who fitly can adore
Thy Birth and Thy Relation,
Lost in the impenetrable light
Of Thine awful Generation?
Oh marvellous! Oh w^orshipful I
No song or sound is heard,
But everywhere and every hour,
In love, in wisdom, and in power,
The Father sj>eaks His dear Eternal Woni!

Thy Father clasps Thee evermore
In unspeakable embraces,
While the angels tremble as they praise,
And shroud their dazzled faces.
Oh marvellous! Oh worshipful!
No song or sound is heard,
But everywhere and every hour,
In love, in wisdom, and in power.
The Father speaks His dear Eternal Word!

And oh! in what abyss of love,
So fiery yet so tender.
The Holy Ghost encircles Thee
With His uncreated splendor!
Oh marvellous! Oh worshipful!
No song or sound is heard.
But everywhere and every hour.
In love, in wisdom, and in power.
The Father speaks His dear Eternal Word i

O Word! O dear and gentle Word!
Thy creatures kneel before Thee,
And in ecstasies of timid love
Delio'htfullv adore Thee.
Oh marvellous! Oh worshipful!
No song or sound is heard.
But everywhere and every hour.
In love, in wisdom, and in power.
The Father speaks His dear Eternal Word \

Hail clioicest mystery of God!
"Hail wondrous Generation!
The Father's selfsafficient rest!
The Spirit's jubilation!
Oh marvellous! Oh worshipful '
No song or sound is heard,
But everywhere and every hour,
In love, in wisdom, and in power,
The Father speaks His dear Eternal Word!

Dear Person! dear beyond all words,
Glorious beyond all telling!
Oh with what songs of silent love
Our ravished hearts are swelling!
Oh marvellous! Oh worshipful!
Xo song or sound is heard,
But everywhere and every hour,
In love, in wisdom, and in power.
The Father speaks His dear Eternal Word!