Spring's Sacrament
'Lift up your hearts!’ The holy dews
Asperge the woodland throng;
Dawn after dawn the lark renews
His miracle of song;
While taper-like the crocus pricks
Athwart the yearning sod;
The primrose lifts his golden pyx,
And God looks forth to God.
The symbols blind, the visions fail,
Our souls strain out to Thee;
Within the leaf, the light, the veil,
Is Thy Felicity.
O Heart of all the world’s desire,
Breathe from around, above,
The mystic kiss of Fire to fire
That Love will yield to love!
~~
Harold E. Goad (1878-1956)
from the Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, 1917
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]
Harold E. Goad biography
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