Of the Father's Love Begotten
1 Of the Father's heart begotten, ere the world from chaos rose, He is Alpha; from that fountain all that is and hath been flows. He of all things is Omega yet to come the mystic close, evermore and evermore.... 2 By his word was all created; he commanded, and 'twas done: earth and sky and boundless ocean, universe of three in one, all that sees the moon's soft radiance, all that breathes beneath the sun, evermore and evermore.... 3 He assumed this mortal body, frail and feeble, doomed to die, that the race, from dust created might not perish utterly, which the ancient law had sentenced in the depths of hell to lie, evermore and evermore.... 4 O how blest that wondrous birthday, when the Maid the curse retrieved, brought to birth the world's salvation by the Holy Ghost conceived; and the Babe, the world's Redeemer in her loving arms received-- evermore and evermore.... 5 This is