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English Common Prayer  Eleanor Farjron

EPICTETUS

GREAT ARE YOU

Great are You, O God:

That is the hymn our hearts would sing as we dig and plough and eat. At every moment, we would sing these praises and, above all, the greatest and divinest praise: that You have given us the power to comprehend these gifts and to walk in the way of reason.

If I were a nightingale, I should sing as a nightingale; if a swan, as a swan; but as I am a rational human being, I must praise You, O Death less Power, forever and ever.