Lord of the daystar! how may words portray

Of thy chaste glory one reflected ray?

Whate’er the soul could dream, the hand could trace,

Of regal dignity and heavenly grace;

Each purer effluence of the fair and bright,

Whose fitful gleams have broke on mortal sight

Each bold idea, borrow’d from the sky,

To vest th’ embodied form of Deity;

All, all in thee, ennobled and refined,

Breathe and enchant, transcendently combined!