O L, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo,O L, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms139:1^6.

Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Philippians 3:13^14.

License my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below. O my America! my new-found-land, My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned.

-Donne,John
c.1595  Elegies, no.19,'To His Mistress Going to Bed'.

   BeforeThee in humility, withThee in faith, inThee in peace.

-Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl
  Va«  gmarken (translated by L Sjsy«  berg and W H  Auden as Markings,1964).

Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow! We will not see them; will not go, To-day, nor yet to-morrow; Enough if in our hearts we know There's such a place asYarrow. BeYarrow stream unseen, unknown; It must, or we shall rue it: We have a vision of our own, Ah! why should we undo it? The treasured dreams of times long past, We'll keep them, winsome Marrow! For when we're there, although 'tis fair, 'Twill be another Yarrow!

-Wordsworth,William
  'Yarrow Unvisited', stanzas 6^7 (published1807).