O quickening Fount of life, Sun-soul supernal; Impenetrating stream Of light, whose every beam Instinctive is and rife With Love eternal: Lord of the Stars and Skies, King of the Earth and Sea, List while our anthems rise In praise of Thee! Greatest of all great gods in all seven spheres, Regent of Space and Lord of countless years, Who first did spring from out eternal night, Piercing its ebon veil with thy swift light; Thou who didst live when Time was yet unborn, The spirit, soul and substance of primeval morn, That roused the gods from out their lengthen’d sleep, What time thy Spirit self had brooded o’er the deep: Then, from thy heart, ethereal, unalloyed, The seven great worlds sevenfold refulgent sprang, The gods did shout, the heavens were overjoyed, And all the stars of heaven together sang! Thy living beams, infilling all the scene, Burned in each orb and knit the space between To ether vault and circumambient air, That breathed thy life and shed it everywhere; Whose power, pervading all, attracts, unites, Binds with a lasting link, sustains, enhances, And adds to all a beauty that invites The liquid light of thy love-lingering glances! Come! glorious Power! and from thy golden tresses Shake down on us the blossoms of the Spring; Lo! how the earth responds to thy caresses, And how in praise of thee the wild birds sing! Look down on us from thy so lofty sphere, Wrap and enfold us in thine ardent rays: Yea, glorious God, we hail thy presence here, Soul of the Sun, we yield thee thanks and praise! Lord of the Stars and Skies, King of the Earth and Sea, List while our anthems rise, In praise of Thee!