The proud colors and brittle cloths, the supple smoke rising,
the metal symbols precious to our dreams
loftily borne.                                               Thy Kingdom come.
                                           We have blessed the fields with speech.
There are alp-passes in the travelled mind
(they have stood in the quiet air, making signs on the sky
to bless the cities of the shining plain).
The climate of the mind is the warmth of a shrine
and the air torn with incense.                   World without end.
How can we bless this place   :   by the sweet horns,
the vaulted words, the pastoral lovers in the waist-deep grass,
remembrances linking back, hands raised like strict flames pointing,
the feet of priests tracking the smooth earth,
many hands binding corn   :   ?                  Thy Kingdom come.
There are pale steeples erect among the green,
blood falling before the eyes of love   the lids fire-bright,
hands together in the fields, the born and unborn children,
and the wish for new blessing and the given blessing blend,
a glory clear in the man-tracks, in the blind
seeking for warmth in the climates of the mind.
                                                                      World without end.
                                                                                                         Amen.