When therefore, veil’d in facred rites, the Mysteries of the Elements are folemnizedi 
and, crowned with holy fymbols, the Pontiff lifts his Rod to Heaven, 
directing your view to that Eternal Order which regulates the whole ; 
Oft you have heard the facred hymns, rel'ponfive to the inltrudive voice of Natui" e » 
foftened in recording the varied influence of the Lunar fphere, 
and the afpiring halleluiah fwell with exalted triumph : 
When, bending towards the Rifing Sun, we celebrate his unrivalled everlafting Wg> n ‘ 
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Soon as the foft mufic of the morning hymn is heard within, 
and with the choral fymphony the fanduary rings, 
let the feraphic founds infpire an holy awe, 
The harmony of the elements fwells the facred fong; 
the gates of light are opened; the fountains of living water are difclofed j 
the tetherial fire is kindled ; 
the incenfe of our folemn adorations afcends before the throne; 
and the holy anthem echoes from every trembling fhrine. 
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Hail ! Spring of Light and Day, 
Bright Image of the SUPREME ! 
which quickens every element, 
• and gives them to .fpread the vital animation round. 
Behold ! the Altar railed, 
to announce the diffufive bleffings that beam from yon Solar Sphere, 
receives our afpirations towards an Influence more ineffably Divine j 
and bears its aweful record — 
— O ! INCOMPREHENSIBLE BEING !— to THEE1 
Whofe Power hath hung that lplendid Orb on high, 
Whole Wisdom hath ordained its various virtues, 
Whofe Goodness gave reviving Nature to triumph in his rays, 
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While all the elements acknowledge the Sun 
to be their Guardian, their Infpirer, and their Lord, 
we accord in the univerfal harmony, and proclaim 
the fovereign energies of that vital Fire ! 
Prime Agent of Heaven ! the glory of creation ! 
by which its whole perfedion and beauty is unfolded to our view. 
But, O ! how high- 
how infinitely exalted o’er all created excellence, 
how tranfcendently divine ! 
The Invisible Attributes of Deity. 
' The Sun’s brighteft blaze of power, wherein molt of goodnefs and of wifdom Ihifl^ 
is but a feeble beam, 
inadequate to exprefs the incommunicable Glories of the MOST HIGH : 
— They only can in filence be adored. — 
That Divine Agency, which no eye can lee, 
no thought can comprehend, 
-it is our fublime aim, in the folemnities of the temple, to celebrate and expl° re ’ 
