A Higher Law Obey

Who sets the spheres to their elliptic dance

Wakes now the spirit from its dreamlike trance,

The mover of the worlds has moved my soul

Who fashions diamonds from the hardened coal

Now fashions us as once he scattered stars

Among the worlds of gods and avatars

To return the spirit to its native light,

Life's fascination with the lures of night

Rescind that we may find ere breath departs

The sanctuary in our heart of hearts,

Hold love so vast the wounded world embrace,

Accelerate the transformation's pace.

On silent feet he comes to his abode

Divine takes up the heavy human load

Of grief and pain that visits all our days

Slowly to reveal the sunlit ways

That we who yearn within these rooms of clay

May live at last, a higher law obey.