Unhemmed as it is uneven!

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  • hjemme: (Danish) home → "on earth"
  • on Earth as it is in Heaven: this entire paragraph is a gloss on The Lord's Prayer
  • unhemmed: perhaps "unfinished", as in the Earth being an unfinished work of divine (unfinished, since Judgment Day has not yet occurred)
  • hemme: (Danish) to check, hamper
  • hem: to surround and shut in.
    • The word "Paradise" comes from Avestan, an Eastern Old Iranian language in which it meant "a walled garden". Therefore, "unhemmed" can refer both to Earth and to Paradise.
  • unhymned
  • uneven: This is the third instance of 'eve' in this paragraph, with "everliving" and "haloed be her eve". Threeness is associated with ALP.
    • The negative prefix un- makes this a self-contradicting allusion: Both eve and not eve.