As a dare-gale skylark scanted in a dull cage
Man’s mounting spirit in his bone-house, mean house, dwells —
That bird beyond the remembering his free fells;
This in drudgery, day-labouring-out life’s age.

Though aloft on turf or perch or poor low stage,
Both sing sometímes the sweetest, sweetest spells,
Yet both droop deadly sometimes in their cells
Or wring their barriers in bursts of fear or rage.

Not that the sweet-fowl, song-fowl, needs no rest —
Why, hear him, hear him babble and drop down to his nest,
But his own nest, wild nest, no prison.

Man’s spirit will be flesh-bound when found at best,
But uncumbered: meadow-down is not distressed
For a rainbow footing it nor he for his bones risen.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod,
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings

Iron will eat the world's old beauty up.
Girder and grid and gantry will arise,
Iron forest of engines will arise,
Criss-cross of iron crotchet. For your eyes
No green or growth. Over all, the skies
Scribbled from end to end with boasts and lies.
(When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, Thou
Saw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead.)

Clamour shall clean put out the voice of wisdom,
The printing presses with their clapping wings,
Fouling your nourishment. Harpy wings,
Filling your minds all day with foolish things,
Will tame the eagle Thought; till she sings
 Parrot-like in her cage to please dark kings.
(When Israel descended into Egypt, Thou
Didst purpose both the bondage and the coming out.)

The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought,
And fools crying, Because it has begun
It will continue as it has begun!
The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run
Faster forever. The old age is done.
We have new lights and see without the sun.
(Thouth they lay flat the mountains and dry up the sea,
Wilt Thou yet change, as though God were a god?)

Blessed art thou, O Lord, God of our fathers, 
and to be praised and highly exalted for ever;

And blessed is thy glorious, holy name 
and to be highly praised and highly exalted for ever;

Blessed art thou in the temple of thy holy glory 
and to be extolled and highly glorified for ever.

Blessed art thou, who sittest upon cherubim and lookest upon the deeps, 
and to be praised and highly exalted for ever.

Blessed art thou upon the throne of thy kingdom 
and to be extolled and highly exalted for ever.

Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven 
and to be sung and glorified for ever.

Bless the Lord, all works of the Lord, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, you heavens, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, you angels of the Lord, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, all waters above the heaven, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, all powers, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, sun and moon, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, stars of heaven, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, all rain and dew, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, all winds, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, fire and heat, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, winter cold and summer heat, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, dews and snows, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, nights and days, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, light and darkness, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, ice and cold, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, frosts and snows, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, lightnings and clouds, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Let the earth bless the Lord; 
let it sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, mountains and hills, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, all things that grow on the earth, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, you springs, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, seas and rivers, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, you whales and all creatures that move in the waters, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, all birds of the air, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, all beasts and cattle, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, you sons of men, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, O Israel, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, you priests of the Lord, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, you servants of the Lord, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, spirits and souls of the righteous, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, you who are holy and humble in heart, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

Bless the Lord, Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael, 
sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever; 
for he has rescued us from Hades and saved us from the hand of death, 
and delivered us from the midst of the burning fiery furnace; 
from the midst of the fire he has delivered us.

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, 
for his mercy endures for ever.

Bless him, all who worship the Lord, the God of gods, 
sing praise to him and give thanks to him,
for his mercy endures for ever.