...find. The kindling ray that shot across the dark and drear abyss, — Was it beneath P or high aloft f What bard can answer this ? There fecundating powers...who ever told, from whence this vast creation rose P No gods had then been born, — who then can e'er the truth disclose ? Whence sprang this world,...

...ray that shot across the dark and drear abyss, — Was it beneath f or high aloft :- What bard con answer this ? There fecundating powers were found,...who ever told, from whence this vast creation rose P No gods had then been born, — who then can e'er the truth disclose ? Whence sprang this world,...

...wrapt, By inward fervour grew. Within It first arose desire, the primal germ of mind Which nothing but existence links, as sages searching find. The kindling...above. Who knows, who ever told, from whence this great creation rose ? No gods had then been born, — then who can e'er the truth disclose ? Whence...

...breathed calmly, self-sustained ; naught else beyond it lay. Gloom, hid in gloom, existed first—one sea, eluding view. That One, a void in chaos wrapt,...whence this vast creation rose ? No gods had then been born—who then can e'er the truth disclose ? Whence sprang this world, and whether framed by hand...

...The hymn itself runs thus, in Muir's metrical rendering: "Then there was neither Aught nor Nought, no air nor sky beyond. What covered all? Where rested...whence this vast creation rose? No gods had then been bom, — who then can e'er the truth disclose? Whence sprang this world, and whether framed by hand...