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Plain text of Ode 4

1 No man, O my GOD, changeth thy holy place;

2 and it is not [possible] that he should change it and put it in another place: because he hath no power over it:

3 for thy sanctuary thou hast designed before thou didst make [other] places:

4 that which is the elder shall not be altered by those that are younger than itself.

5 Thou hast given thy heart, O Lord, to thy believers: never wilt thou fail, nor be without fruits:

6 for one hour of thy Faith is more precious than all days and years.

7 For who is there that shall put on thy grace, and be hurt?

8 For thy seal is known: and thy creatures know it: and thy [heavenly] hosts possess it: and the elect archangels are clad with it.

9 Thou hast given us thy fellowship; it was not that thou wast in need of us: but that we are in need of thee:

10 distil thy dews upon us and open thy rich fountains that pour forth to us milk and honey:

11 for there is no repentance with thee that thou shouldest repent of anything that thou hast promised:

12 and the end was revealed before thee: for what thou gavest, thou gavest freely:

13 so that thou mayest not draw them back and take them again:

14 for all was revealed before thee as GOD, and ordered from the beginning before thee: and thou, O GOD, hast made all things. Hallelujah.