In This Charged and Sacred Place

In all their deep eyes glistening

A light, a lustre sweetly stole

Softly each enveloping

As a diamond aureole.

Upon these souls that did attend

This home of godly atmosphere

A radiance I saw descend

And felt the Lord and Mother near.

Between the words a silence lay

Like the mirrored stillness of a lake

Or the calm approach of an auspice day

When with an inner ear we wake

To a faint familiar flutelike call.

A golden chain there seemed around,

A Grace supreme encircling all

And once again I looked and found

That all these souls were truly one,

For in this charged and sacred place

I saw in each an inner sun

Reflecting the Beloved's face.