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CREATION.
But then, with undisputed might,
That Architect Divine,
His own immortal essence breathed
Into a clay-built shrine;
And stamped his image on the man,
And gave him kingly power,
And brought him to a home of love
In sinless Eden's bower.
Then music from undying harps
The young creation blest,
And forth the first-born Sabbath spread
Its dove-like wing of rest.
It came with holy gladness fraught,
With pure benignant ray,
And God himself the lesson taught—
To keep the Sabbath-day
