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Law and Wisdom for the livers therein.

All His creatures upon His errands

From here He sends and hither bids.

Had He not established each so steady,

All His creatures, every one of them,

Breaking away had burst asunder,

In deadly hate had come to naught;

Yes, like foes they had fallen apart,

Though one love only all things created

In heaven and earth have in common,

That such a Leader they serve together,

All of them glad that the Father rules.

No need for wonder, for no one thing

Could ever hope to hold its life

Unless all were serving their common Source,

With all their might, their glorious Master.

XXX

In the East Omerus among the Greeks

Was in that country in songs most cunning,

Of Firgilius also friend and teacher,

Of that famed maker, best of masters.

Now this Omerus often and often

On the sun's splendour spent high praises,

His noble powers showed to the people

In glee and story, again and again.

Yet the sun cannot beam, for all his brightness,

Over all creation