A Diviner Birth

Down fell I from those immortal heights

Into the dust of our mortal atmosphere,

I took new breath in jasmine-scented nights

And felt earth's wounded beauty ever near.

I swam in pristine rivers and I heard

The songs my ancient mothers sang to me

And in another tongue received the Word

From one I knew as the Divinity

Incarnate here to change the suffering globe

By man oppressed and human ignorance,

And she who wore a paradisal robe

Enfolding all to heal and with one glance

Rekindled faith and hope in those who came

To this far land where kings and sages dreamed

Who knew the power of the secret Name

And praying where the sacred waters streamed

From heaven-heights called down upon the earth

The truth divine and a diviner birth..