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RAPHAEL

The sun proclaims its old devotion
In rival song with brother spheres,
And still completes in thunderous motion
The circuits of its destined years.
Angelic powers, uncomprehending,
Are strengthened as they gaze their fill;
Thy works, unfathomed and unending,
Retain the first day’s splendour still
 
GABRIEL

The glorious earth, with mind appalling
Swiftness, upon itself rotates,
And with the dark night’s dreadful falling
Its primal radiance alternates.
High cliffs stand deep in ocean weather,
Wide foaming waves flood out and in,
And cliffs and seas rush on together
Caught in the globe’s unceasing spin.
 
MICHAEL

And turn by turn the tempests raging
From sea to land, from land to sea,
Build up, in passion unassuaging,
Their chain of furious energy.
The thunder strikes, its flash is faster
It spreads destruction on its way –
But we, they messengers, O master,
Revere thy gently circling day

ALL THREE

And each of us, uncomprehending
Is strengthened as we gaze our fill,
For all thy works, sublime, unending,
Retain their first day’s splendour still