With Second Sight

As from the pages of a treasured book

There leaps to view a vision of the goal

Or phrase that shoots directly to the soul,

I knelt transfixed by Her penetrating look,

Awakened in this embodiment I saw

Falsehood's end and grief by love subdued.

She spoke as I bowed and gazed in awe,

Through her the sacred covenant renewed.

I was filled with joy I could not comprehend

And saw in Her earth's destiny revealed.

I knew this chosen world would never end

By fire or flood or on the battlefield

But men would grow in wisdom to unite

And rise above the rifts that polarize.

All this I saw as one grown suddenly wise

Reads the script anew with second-sight.