I am fire in the palace of water;
I am God, and my glory is one!
I am bride of the sun and the starlight ;
The moonlight is.bride unto me; .
I am lit of my deeps with a far light,
My heart and its flame flung free.
I am She, the beginning and end; I am all, and my name
is the Sea!
ORPHEUS
Then thou, O my mother,
Hast given to me
The power of another,
The watery key.
Bright air is my brother,
My sister the sea;
I have called, and they answer and come; and their song
is but glory to thee.
One other is left me,
The light of the earth.
If Fate had bereft me,
Oh Muse, of thy birth,
Still I had cleft me
A way in her girth!
I tune the loud lyre once again to the mother of men in her
mirth.
O mighty and glad
In spring-time and summer!
O tearful and sad
When the sun is grown dumber,
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