Father eternal, ruler of ...

Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.
 Laurence Housman

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If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
 Laurence Housman
If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.
 Laurence Housman
The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.
 Laurence Housman