Before time, before all

You begotten, all in all

Beloved and lover

Love itself

In time to be love manifest

The spoken word

The face of God

A universe your perfect thought

Eternal impulse to include

in love’s accord a multitude

And so you stood

in clothes of flesh

upon this ground

and heard the sounds

and breathed the air

- and did you fear?

This sky you saw

this pulse you felt

this night endured

and shared our death

You God, the Son,

Creator come

to be as us

and only yesterday

to taste the cross

and shout Rejoice!

to us your waking friends

Our love ascends