Alpha and Omega
In the beginning, the eternal Word, By might unmeasured and unknown to man, Spoke, and the depths of nothingness were stirred; And in that great beginning time began. And in time’s fullness, man by sin fast held, That Word was flesh, time met eternity; The finite and the Infinite were weld, And God and man was hanged upon a tree. But in time’s glass will drop the final sand, The cloud-clothed angel with a lion’s roar Shall set his fiery feet on sea and land, God’s end be reached, and...