Eternal urge, strange pulse beat of my God,
I welcome every throb and mystic stir,
The long, deep silences which veil the past
Have known thee well and trembled with strange joy
As in majestic mood you passed them by.
On, on and ever upward in thy reach
I trace thee in thy tireless, endless ways.
The vast expanses of this universe
Respond and vibrate as you move through them.
All nature inarticulate and bound
Thrills at thy touch and reaches out her arms.
Mute prayers but eloquent in faith sublime.
Thy holy breath hath quickened me to life.
I joy to feel thee move upon my house,
This tenement of clay in which I live.
I joy to share thy life which makes me know
I am a part of this great cosmic whole.
But deeper rests the ecstasy divine
That burning in the inner, sacred shrine
A fire of God, fanned by His eternal breath
Illuminates my spirit and I see.
A miracle has come to grace my life.
A threefold consciousness completes my grasp.
All that combines to make me who I am
Is turned into a hunger infinite.
My being is a thirsty desert lone.
Though nameless incompletion haunts me here,
God feeds me with immortal Bread and Wine,
A fount of living water pours within.
Strange paradox that life should thus be lived!
Eternal urge, sweet token of God’s faith,
Though infinite thy task, thy end is sure.
Completion and perfection of His thought
Shall yet be known in every phase of life.
A faith triumphant like a holy drive
Sublimely moves and carries all to God.
I too, although so small an item here
Caught up and placed within this mighty plan,
Can now partake of life and light in Him.
And though the yearning for the perfect whole
Is turned into a groaning deep and dumb,
A song triumphant is its sequel sure.
A new creation now I find myself
In process of becoming God’s ideal.
Eternal urge, O mighty breath of God,
Move on in floods of endless life.