The first day of Creation
All things, love, alone were,
Darkness the lonely creature;
Clove us then Love with good light
For two can be together,
And partly we were bright,
Each other so to look on.
The second day of Creation
But water was our body
In one place that lay;
Sundered us then Love
And part raised firm, that we
The hard sky too might have
And be both up and down.
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