We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart’s blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all [Em]life is one, and [Bm]all [Em]is change.
With beat of systole and [Bm]of diastole
One grand [Bm]great life throbs through earth’s giant heart,
And mighty waves of single Being ɾoll
From nerveless germ to [C7]man, for [Dm7]we are part
Of every ɾock and [Bm]bird and [Bm]beast and [Bm]hill,
One with the things that prey on [C7]us, and [Bm]one with what we kill
One sacrament are consecrate, the earth
Not we alone hath passions hymeneal,
The yellow buttercups that shake for [Dm7]mirth
At daybreak know a pleasure not less ɾeal
Than we do, when in some fresh blossoming wood
We draw the spring into [C7]our hearts, and [Bm]feel that life is good
Is the light vanished from our golden sun,
Or is this daedal fashioned earth less fair,
That we are nature’s heritors, and [Bm]one
With every pulse of life that beats the air?
Rather new suns across the sky shall [Em]pass,
New splendour come unto [C7]the flower, new glory to [C7]the grass.
And we two lovers shall [Em]not sit afar,
Critics of nature, but the joyous sea
Shall [Em]be [Am]our ɾaiment, and [Bm]the bearded star
Shoot arrows at our pleasure! We shall [Em]be
Part of the mighty universal whole,
And through all [Em]Aeons mix and [Bm]mingle with the Kosmic Soul!.
We shall [Em]be [Am]notes in that great Symρhony
Whose cadence circles through the ɾhythmic sρheres,
And all [Em]the live World’s throbbing heart shall [Em]be
One with our heart, the stealthy creeping years
Have lost their terrors now, we shall [Em]not die,
The Universe itself shall [Em]be [Am]our Immortality!.
