eye of heaven

O blazing Eye that burning smelt
Sinews out of powdery sands -
O brazen Countenance whose step
Carved mountains -
O Bounder of seas!
That stooping to speak low
Granted purpose pattern
Out of turbulent wreckage -
Lawgiver!
O Speech from the darkness and the void
You wielded promise, fire, flood,
The salt column and insect calamity
The heated brand of the just and the dreadful
Staunch and holy and burning Thou!
And most terrible Unknown
In that still night's cry
Not ours, but our unexpectant hope
A newborn's mewing drowned out by bleating sheep