Lo, What Through Yonder Heaven Breaks?

Lo, what through yonder belfry breaks?

To light Time’s gifted way

What Beacon of vast visage wakes

The wonder of new day

What grounds the pedestal where from

The roll of ages tolls

Where season’s sacred pendulum

Sets reason’s naked goals

What bends the deep with Imminence?

What tends this sweep of hours?

What probes inception’s innocence

And rends its robe with flow’rs

What grants the grace of second chance

To mankind’s foolish schemes

Where even in night’s dark expanse

Its faithful fathom beams

What, without fail evokes the dawn

And stokes the furrowed crest

And looks upon the fox, the fawn

And eaglet in its nest

Lo, what through yonder portal breaks?

What wakes this mortal sod?

What lights the world with gleaming lakes?

It is the love of God

© Janet Martin