God Reborn

Down I fell in sorrow and despair

No glint of light could hope to reach me there,

Only my faith and that by the thinnest thread

Held me from communion with the dead.

The passing of the years not too unkind

Have brought a healing solace to the mind

I see, though still not clearly, beauty's face

Divine even in the commonplace

Despite a world in tears with mocking Death

Astride the innocent slain with fiery breath

And earth benumbed by plunder and rapine

Undying hope, the human spirit's sign,

The soul that can alone survive the night

Arisen now to end our human plight

And lift men's hearts to the ennobling view,

God reborn who lives in the chosen few.