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The First to Be …

Gaze far away into the skies you’ll see,

the vastness of limitless divine reach.

Illumine mine eyes oh twinkling stars this night

May I merit to learn the lessons You teach.


The first of circles You drew without compass or pen,

galactic orbs you cast far beyond sight.

Soaring toward endlessness at heavenly speed,

I pray to fathom the ways of your might.


A house for man from words you did utter,

with neither roof nor from walls a world you conceive.

From darkness each night, the moon but an ember …

Master of The Universe … in Thee, I believe.


Awaken in morning to sounds of the dawn,

our lips with gratitude but of bitterness none.

By His grace a new day to us He hath given,

be as He, the first to be though He had never begun.*

*This last verse is based on an old translation of a verse from the Jewish hymn “Yigdal”.

Alan D. Busch

May 2008