ALPHA and Omega, God alone: <br />Eloi, My God, the Holy-One; <br />Whose Power is Omnipotence: <br />Whose Wisedome is Omni-science: <br />Whose Beeing is All Soveraigne Blisse: <br />Whose Worke Perfection’s Fulnesse is; <br />Under All things, not under-cast; <br />Over All things, not over-plac’t; <br />Within All things, not there included; <br />Without All things, not thence excluded: <br />Above All, over All things raigning; <br />Beneath All, All things aye sustayning: <br />Without All, All conteyning sole: <br />Within All, filling-full the Whole: <br />Within All, no where comprehended; <br />Without All, no where more extended; <br />Under, by nothing over-topped: <br />Over, by nothing under-propped: <br /> <br />Unmov’d, Thou mov’st the World about; <br />Unplac’t, Within it, or Without: <br />Unchanged, time-lesse, Time Thou changest: <br />Th’ unstable, Thou, still stable, rangest; <br />No outward Force, nor inward Fate, <br />Can Thy drad Essence alterate: <br /> <br />To-day, To-morrow, yester-day, <br />With Thee are One, and instant aye; <br />Aye undivided, ended never: <br />To-day, with Thee, indures for-ever. <br /> <br />Thou, Father, mad’st this mighty Ball; <br />Of nothing thou created’st All, <br />After th’ Idea of thy Minde, <br />Conferring Forme to every kinde. <br /> <br />Thou wert, Thou art, Thou wilt be ever: <br />And Thine Elect, rejectest never.<br /><br />Joshua Sylvester<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-father-5/
