Who shall narrate?

VI

Alone didst Thou, O Lord, the heaven's wide tent

Uprear, and bid the earth beneath be shown;

Thy word the oceans in their boundaries pent

Alone.

No aid or counsel hadst Thou save Thine own

When Thou with lights didst hang the firmament

And call the hosts celestial round Thy throne.

Thy works, in universal cadence blent,