BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

Before His Father He could

Acknowledge One in glory

And in intimacy as

The only true God.

 

So that His Father was

Constrained by love to accord

What accords to His nobility

The title "Lord and Christ".

 

Having completed the work

To the satisfaction of Him

Who loved Him He could

Address, "Righteous Father".

 

He was the expression of all

God would convey, consonant

With the divine thought that every

Word of God is pure.

Why is He the Beloved?

Because God saw in every act

And thought He was true,

Noble, just and pure.