See in celestial-suited light Each and every finite sight From land to sky and earth to sea Creatures ushering a decree A divine and supernatural hum Whispers of eternal wisdom.
You are present in those wings, those songs The finches warbling in gold throngs Equally the sparrow, also the jay Up! Up! over earth and air they ballet And through the clouds their tunes betoken Your spirit’s voice, soft spoken.
Espy too the butterfly, her sprightly prance Leaps and glides in chromatic dance A parade beneath spotlight eye Ornaments the tapestry of sky With a heralding and jubilant array Of your glory on display.
From bush to flower the bumble bee floats Collecting sweet syrup-notes Lo! a buzzing banquet held within Spreads honeyed hymns to posing limbs Who, blushing—bow to the piped refrain Denoting orchestrated reign.
Worthy also, of celebratory note Is the laurel’s pillared throat Upon which the rubicund robin weaves His bed from its offering of berries and leaves How lofty his shelter in the air Yet still to you, does not compare.
Behold the lambs in alabaster apparel About the moors, bound and carol To undulating grass they bend then bleat Till whence in reaping—are replete And from those fields their chorus regales Through the sky, transcendent tales. Still, as a spotted blessing The doe thirsting by the spring In a breath of wind—vanishes Like dandelion-dispelled wishes Both of them sigh of something gone Something holy, once looked upon.
Too, with this boat (vessel of body) You guide as do oars, sovereignly Past trumpet lily as she swims Along the current’s rolling hymns Hark! the murmur of sparkling foam Reminds the fount of temporary home.
The voice of you is in all her stir Nature, our wise preacher Whispers of far off things— An echo from a heavenly king.
And when she hums Of you, to all May my voice join in her call.