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| STRIVING, I sought Myself to find | |
| Through fluent Time’s extended sweep; | |
| I watched the births of Gods and Men, | |
| The Sowing that we reap. | |
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| I saw the first gigantic Form | 5 |
| Come forth the blackened Void; | |
| I heard the Roar of the Falling Years | |
| And lived in the great Sauroid. | |
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| Far-pinnacled on heights of Flame, | |
| I watched the Suns take fire— | 10 |
| I was the music in the Hand | |
| That played the Cosmic Lyre. | |
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| I moved in the Flux of the flowing Years | |
| Through Rock, and Plant, and Beast. | |
| I entered into the Son of Man, | 15 |
| For I saw His Star in the East. | |
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| I sped in worship to His shrine, | |
| That Manger, cradled low; | |
| With Him I suffered on the Cross, | |
| And was in Him the Woe. | 20 |
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| I rise triumphant from the Dead, | |
| On every Easter Morn; | |
| In Ecstasies Nirvana reach, | |
| And with the Gods am born. | |
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| Jehovah on His silver Throne, | 25 |
| Ishvara’s boundless Form; | |
| The Silent Braman in the Heart | |
| I name, and clothe, and warm. | |
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| I am the Word that was with God, | |
| Before the Birth of Time; | 30 |
| I am the Portal and the Path, | |
| The Lowly and Sublime. | |
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| I am the end of Finite Things, | |
| The Infinite in Scope; | |
| Before the Gods that were, I am, | 35 |
| I am the prisoned Hope. | |
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| By Me alone you reach to God, | |
| You serve not Me and Pelf; | |
| All Happiness abides in Me | |
| For lo! I am Yourself. | 40 |
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