1. Our sheltering nurse has circled us
With her shining lights.

2. Her seasons turned above us,
Cups passed round by dawns lit up

3. By the sun of her glowing fires.
The horizon of the rainy sky shone out

4. With its winds and rains.
The branches' gentle boughs sang

5. In the tongues of their twittering birds.
The disturbed rapture of that song

6. Set dancing the slender bridal trees.
So rise, and walk the garden's peace,

7. Where smiles break out on opening flowers,
And scented winds spill out their secret clears.

8. Her open plains outsoar all others,
Pasture to the tribes from everywhere.

9. God's spring days have special grace
In their carpets and their trees.

10. When the self here is watered, it tells tales
That link back to the ancients.

11. It brings you texts inscribed at birth,
Traced through Adam and beyond.