Long before God’s word was spoken was a silence never broken,
Though a million billion trillion stars were bursting into space.
Even space itself was rended, all its energy expended
On the galaxies distended by the violence in space.
Though the fate of life depended on the violence in space,
God would need a safer place.

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Time, the architect of changes, worked with space in its vast ranges,
In the Universe now dated at some thirteen billion years.
All the atoms were created, all in molecules related,
All dispersed and separated through the vast expanse of years,
Till the violence abated and some order then appears,
And God’s purpose then appears.

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Thus it was that in a region where the stars were massed in legions,
Formed the spiral turning galaxy we call the Milky Way;
In a rare quiescent region, far from evanescent regions,
Formed the slender solar system which we live in to this day;
Formed the active little planet where its creatures have held sway,
For a billion years held sway.

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Long before there was a creature who could study every feature
Of the Universe around him and could write his findings down ---
Born with eyes and ears and fingers, and a memory that lingers,
And a mouth for fools and singers, and for teachers of renown ---
There was Law and Truth and Science that was never written down,
And a God who did not frown.

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