The Vision

"The Vision"

You are the vision, you are the image of the dream,

The voice among the stars, the silence in the stream;

A breath of the infinite poise, where space and time are spun,

And the circling orbits wheel their planet round the sun.

Beyond the outer margin where nothing calls to God

Leaps the fiery symbol to bloom where your feet have trod;

Here is the earth resurgent with color and bloom each spring,

Glorying the dream and the vision in the song that you bring.

 William Stanley Braithwaite