O Time! Time! Time! <br />Thou wondrous mystery! <br />Within whose rune and rhyme <br />Lies all Man's history <br />Before Creation's birth <br />Or yet the Heavens were made <br />With darkness all was girth, <br />Till word Creative said <br />'Let there be Light;' <br />And lo! from out the deep <br />In grandeur and with might <br />Rolled back the ages of sleep, <br />And born was Night-and-Day, <br />And stars together sang <br />Their glad harmonic lay <br />And all Creation rang <br />With 'Glory to God in the Highest.' <br />Now let the strain resound <br />And Man to God the nighest <br />With Light and Life be crowned, <br />Till in the time appointed, <br />Unfolding from Man's breast <br />Be Life with Love anointed <br />And God made manifest.<br /><br />Joseph Furphy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/finis-time/
