The PRIEST: Thou, who art I, beyond all I am,
Who hast no nature, and no name,
Who art, when all but Thou are gone,
Thou, centre and secret of the Sun,
Thou, hidden spring of all things known
And unknown, Thou aloof, alone,
Thou, the true fire within the reed
Brooding and breeding, source and seed
Of life, love, liberty and light,
Thou beyond speech and beyond sight,
Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire
Kindling as mine intents aspire.
Thee I invoke, abiding one,
Thee, centre and secret of the Sun,
And that most holy mystery
Of which the vehicle am I!
Appear, most awful and most mild,
At it is lawful, in thy child!
T.S.: One local Priest is in the habit of prefixing the verse “Flowers and fruit I bring to bless you” from the speech of the young John in The Ship to this. The whole of that speech from “I am that I am, the flame” would be overkill which I would only consider doing as an act of spite against everyone else present.
The CHORUS: For of the Father and the Son
The Holy Spirit is the norm;
Male-female, quintessential, one,
Man-being veiled in woman-form.
Glory and worship in the Highest,
Thou Dove, mankind that deifiest,
Being that race, most royally run,
To spring sunshine through winter storm!
Glory and worship be to Thee,
Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree!
FIRST SEMI-CHORUS: MEN: Glory to Thee from Gilded Tomb!
SECOND SEMI-CHORUS: WOMEN: Glory to Thee from Waiting Womb!
MEN: Glory to Thee from earth unploughed!
WOMEN: Glory to Thee from virgin vowed!
MEN: Glory to Thee, true Unity
Of the Eternal Trinity!
WOMEN: Glory to Thee, thou sire and dam
And Self of I am that I am!
MEN: Glory to Thee beyond all term,
Thy spring of sperm, thy seed and germ!
WOMEN: Glory to Thee, eternal Sun,
Thou One in Three, Thou Three in One!
The CHORUS: Glory and worship unto Thee,
Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree!
(These words are to form the substance of the anthem: but the whole or any part thereof may be set to music, which may be as elaborate as art can devise.
T.S.: The tune of Auld Lang Syne is not recommended, and only fits the Anthem marginally better than it does the Lord's Prayer in English. Actually I doubt the Anthem has a consistent metre and a decent musical setting may not be possible.
T.S. (later): The above was perhaps based on my thinking in terms of verse metres. While some “long metre” (8.8.8.8) hymn tunes fit, and in particular the “Old Hundredth” and “Jerusalem” have been suggested, such are generally based on four or eight line stanzas, whereas the Tu qui es has eighteen lines so if an existing tune is used some hacking about as to lines might be needed; and while the Quia Patris has 24 lines total, use of a tune based on a four or eight line stanza would put verse breaks in the wrong place (i.e. two lines before the end of the main chorus, breaking up paired semi-choruses, etc.)