<p>1. Of the Father&#39;s love begotten,<br>Ere the worlds began to be,<br>He is Alpha and Omega,<br>He the source, the ending He,<br>Of the things that are, that have been,<br>And that future years shall see,<br>Evermore and evermore.<br></p><p>2. At his word the worlds were framèd;<br>He commanded, it was done:<br>Heav’n and earth and depths of ocean,<br>In their threefold order one;<br>All that grows beneath the shining<br>Of the moon and burning sun—<br>[Evermore and evermore.]<br></p><p>3. He was found in human fashion,<br>Death and sorrow here to know,<br>That the race of Adam’s children,<br>Doomed by law to endless woe,<br>May not henceforth die and perish<br>In the dreadful gulf below—<br>[Evermore and evermore.]<br></p><p>4. O that birth forever blessèd,<br>When the virgin, full of grace,<br>By the Holy Ghost conceiving,<br>Bore the Savior of our race,<br>And the babe, the world’s Redeemer,<br>First revealed his sacred face—<br>[Evermore and evermore.]</p>