Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, / in a light fantastic round.

Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe

Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.

Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!

There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.