Empyrean Dawn - Iona

How wonderful this world

A fragment of a fiery sun

How lovely and how small

The smallest seed in secret grows

Thrusting upward and so soon

The bidding of the light

The bud unfurls into a rose

The wings within the white cocoon

Are perfected for flight

The migrant bird in winter fled

Shall come again with spring

And build, in the same shading tree

How wonderful this life

No random path this great design

How fragile and how bold

The mystery of creative thought

The wonder of the human frame

Of spirit and of soul

When life within the nidus wakes

The fromless taking shape unfolds

How complex and how strange

The heart created free to choose

That quintessential breath is given

In love’s own image born