Majesty Divine

Full of glory, full of wonders,
Majesty Divine I
Mid Thine everlasting thunders
How Thy lightnings shine!
Shoreless Ocean! who shall sound Thee?
Thine own eternity is round Thee,
Majesty Divine!

Timeless, spaceless, single, lonely,
Yet sublimely Three,
Thou art grandly, always, only
God in Unity!
Lone in grandeur, lone in glory,
Who shall tell Thy wondrous story,
Awful Trinity?

Speechlessly, without beginning,
Sun that never rose!
Vast, adorable, and winning,
Day that hath no close!
Bliss from Thine own glory tasting,
Everliving, everlasting,
Life that never grows!

Thine own Self for ever rilling
With self-kindled flame,
In Thyself Thou art distilling
Unctions without name!
Without worshipping of creatures.
Without veiling of Thy features,
God always the same!

In Thy praise of Self untiring
Thy perfections shine;
Self-sufficient, self-admiring, -
Such life must be Thine;-
Glorifying Self, yet blameless,
With a sanctity all shameless,
It is so divine!

Mid Thine uncreated morning,
Like a trembling star
I behold creation's dawning
Glimmering from far;
Nothing giving, nothing taking,
Nothing changing, nothing breaking,
Waiting at time's bar!

I with life and love diurnal
See myself in Thee,
All embalmed in love eternal,
Floating in Thy sea:
Mid Thine uncreated whiteness
I behold Thy glory's brightness
Feed itself on me.

Splendors upon splendors beaming
Change and intertwine;
Glories over glories streaming
All translucent shine!
Blessings, praises, adorations
Greet Thee from the trembling nations
Majesty Divine!