Fish in Shining Schools

Do fish in shining schools reflect His light,

Do crows converse among themselves of God

And of the earth, the willow and the thorn

Do they awake to savour each new morn?

In the thousand-tensioned moments of our lives

Do we recall or even more, delight

In silence mid this world's complex design

And wonder at things common and divine?

The mover of this enigmatic life

Is hidden from the outward view of man,

Surpassing form, oblivious of name

Installed within this dense corporeal frame.

O once to know the grace in which we move

All things our wakened souls to touch with love.