The Leap From Darkness

What I know I cannot see

What I am I do not know

What I love is hid in me

What I shall be told long ago.

What I hear I can't reveal

What I've seen I cannot say

What I want is but to feel

The force of the transforming ray.

What I have done is not complete

When darkness in the heart abides,

What ways I've trod with erring feet

And yet the One in me resides!

From weakness our strengths are born

Our greatest losses sum to gains

When spirit wakes one golden morn

Aware these are but earthly stains

And turns this clay to heaven-use,

Our lives now wedded to the night

Divorce from all that would refuse

The leap from darkness into light.