Color and fragrance, magical rhythm,
sweet changing music will change us with them:
life within life, ever shifting and flowing,
word of the wordless song, God’s vision growing.
O starry heavens, worlds of all splendor,
sums without number, new life engender:
wheel in a wheel with the light brightly glowing,
moving in harmony, God’s vision growing.
Delicate beings, lacewing and sparrow,
in field and forest, clover and yarrow:
friend greeting friend with our love clearly showing,
share in a greater life, God’s vision growing.
Handful of pebbles, high mountain passes,
depths of the ocean, dew on the grasses:
great things and small, flying high, breezes blowing,
flame burning brightly, our vision growing.
Norbert Capek, with changes and additions by Eleanor Trawick