Ambassadors of Human Destiny

I still recall the silence of the snow

When all the world was blanketed in white

And as a child in wonder watched it blow

Across the fields and landscapes of the night,

When beauty like a rainbow's arch appeared

And laughter's face among the soaring trees

Enchanted me so nothing strange I feared,

All life drew close my youthful hands to seize.

I now retain the memory of men

Who held the God-light burning in their eyes,

Known before and met here once again

Ambassadors of human destinies,

God's designates though robed in mortal forms,

Far above the earth their brilliant home

Untouched by tides of sin or passion's storms

What they are now we must in time become.