Hymn To The Winds of Heaven

O, you heavenly winds, I hymn you
On your way across The All's horizon.
Every mote of every point along your journey,
You join them in your swelling progress.

All that radiates before the eyes
Is sheltered inside your sparkling boundary
That opens onto the illimitable.

O, you divine breaths
Everblowing through the innermost chambers
Of the Great Mind in which Man is enmansioned,
I praise thee and am overcome.

At every moment

In the threads of tiny whirlwinds

You catch me, and when I am caught

I see at once a million thoughts

Unrolling in the vast fabric of wind

From which the world is woven.

In clouds you roam, 

Spinners of its halls and domes.

Aureate rays burst through, enrolling the soul 

In your lessons within a university of Light.

You speak and everything listens.

You teach and all things learn.

 

I praise thee, your every act that manifests
Plain and true inside the brilliant mirror of the day,
This rolling sphere of reflection which you draw through the air.

Upon you, winds, images form even as they scatter

In the next quicksilver moment

Recorded in my memory.

And there in a moment's reflection
I see my earthly dress, this human flesh,
A flame of sun and moon,
And I must sing with love of its essence,

O Powers All that are Within me,
How this flame breathes the winds!