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Of all creation, first Begotten Son, divine Similitude, In whose conspicuous countenance, without cloud Made visible, the Almighty Father shines, Whom else no creature can behold: on Thee Impressed, the effulgence of His glory bides; Transfused in Thee His ample spirit rests. The Heaven of heavens, and all the powers therein By Thee created.
Of all creation, first Begotten Son, divine Similitude, In whose conspicuous countenance, without cloud Made visible, the Almighty Father shines, Whom else no creature can behold: on Thee Impressed, the effulgence of His glory bides; Transfused in Thee His ample spirit rests. The Heaven of heavens, and all the powers therein By Thee created.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- John Milton
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 1641 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1608–1674); not necessarily a composition date.
The voice behind the words.
Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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