Hymn To Heaven
The Fumigation from Frankincense.
Great Heaven, whose mighty frame no respite knows,
Father of all, from whom the world arose:
Hear, bounteous parent, source and end of all,
Forever whirling round this earthly ball;
Abode of Gods, whose guardian power surrounds
the eternal World with ever during bounds;
Whose ample bosom and encircling folds
The dire necessity of nature holds.
Aetherial, earthly, whose all-various frame
Azure and full of forms, no power can tame.
All-seeing Heaven, progenitor of Time,
forever blessed, deity sublime,
Propitious on a novel mystic shine,
And crown his wishes with a life divine.
Translated by Thomas Taylor.