God's Design

Who turns from Me I hold him closer still
Till all rebellion cease I shall not yield
The soul to darkness or to death the will
Of spirit to possess the truth revealed

To wisdom that resides within the soul
And joy for which the earth and man were born.
The darkness that upon the spirit stole
Is harbinger of an eternal morn

Of which the flowers speak in sunlit spheres
The aspiration of earth in fragrant bloom
And all the birds rejoice as beauty nears,
A radiance beyond this earthly room

Of sighs and sorrows, death and deep despair,
The painful process of the spirit's climb
From ignorance' close and stifling air
To the light that gleams beyond the bourne of time

And love divine that heals as calm descends
Into the heart, into the willing mind.
As God is born in us division ends.
To inner sight revealed that once was blind

The Deity in leaf, in bloom, in star,
In body and body exultant cells awake
To That which ever near was seeming far,
Human forms to God's design remake.