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A world of sinners
once was drowned,
A deluge swept them all away;
One family alone had found
mercy in that great judgement day.
Forewarned of wrath to come,
they feared,
And, taught by God, prepared an ark,
Which o�er the waves
in sunshine steered,
Where all below was dead and dark.
Again the Spirit of the Lord
Moved on the formless deep and void,
And to the patriarch�s sight restored
The relics of that world destroyed:
A world without a breathing soul,
or sign of life in plant or tree;
Stretched like a corpse
from pole to pole,
Untravelled land, unvoyaged sea!
Then from their
hiding-place they came,
And straightway built an altar there;
Whence rose to heaven
the double flame
Of pure burnt sacrifice and prayer.
We, in an ark not made with hands,
God�s own new covenant of peace,
Which on the rock of ages stands,
Seek refuge till his anger cease.
Then, as the cloud-born
rainbow smiled
On Noah�s ransomed ones, we trace
Our heavenly Father reconciled
In our incarnate Saviour�s face.
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