Scoil: An Mhainistir, Móin Rátha (uimhir rolla 14243)

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1. (gan teideal)

   “Almighty Spirit!...”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Almighty Spirit! Whilst with awe I gaze
   Upon thy wondrous works in those grand hours
   My mind to thy Eternal Throne I raise-
   I roam, in spirit, thro' those blessed bowers
   Where you for ever hold unbounded sway
   And pour the shades at night and blaze of day
   On these, our nether spheres - where you control
   And guide the costellations as they roll

   Oh brilliant orb! that since thy maker's will
   First formed thee out of nought, has shed thy light
   On Ocean, mountain, Valley, lake and hill,
   What veils thee now from curious mortal sight?
   Say is the fount exhausted whence you drew,
   The gold of even, the morning's purple hue -
   Those springs of life and light that warmed the earth
   Since the All-powerful Being gave it birth.

   Let sage philosophers say what they will,
   Let Coppernicus and Des Cartes rant
   Let fam'd Sir Isaac ponderous folios fill
   With his wild theories and learned cant
   Of planetary laws and revolutions
   Conjunctions, transits and vast convolutions
   In these grand scenes I simply can def

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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