O God, whose reason rules the world,

O God, whose reason rules the world,
who formed the starry heights above,
timeless, time’s chain far forth you hurled,
unmoved, gave all things power to move.
Prevailed on by no outside cause
to fashion all reality;
ideas of love and mental laws
molded the noble world we see.
Your nature perfect beauty,
thus you made the world in tenderness
with sights and sounds to conjure us
to love the source of loveliness.
You named the primal elements
of earth and water, air and fire,
and balanced out their influence
that none…