Frozen silence… Darkness prevails on darkness.One shaft of light breaks through the jagged cloudsComing from nothingness to penetrate the depths,Compound the night with day, build length and breadth,Prefigure peak and ridge, declivities, redoubts,A loose blue atmosphere, earth’s deep dense fullness.That brilliant shaft dissevers teeming generationInto both deed and war, and in a frenzy of creationIgnites a gleaming terrified new world.All changes where the seeds of light descend,Order arises, magnificence is heardIn praise of life, of victory to light’s great end.The mighty urge glides on, to moveIts power into all creatures’ being,Recalling far divinity, the spirit of God’s doing:Now joy and pain, words, art, and song,World towering on world in arching victory throngWith impulse, mind, contention, pleasure, love.
