My Eternal House

I saw fully in a dream My eternal house Lest I forget I drew the words in a book And lest I mix words with images I Identified the features of my imagination I've seen my eternal house Tower high And its limbs stretch through And span the whole earth Inside its walls Songs of praise are sung As an array of birds Chant and glorify the Almighty I saw him swelling Extending his arms to each bird Beyond the horizon Decorated with lights and the lights above The most beautiful and aggrandized of lights Its doors of gold its walls of gold And a courtyard multicolored My tongue unable to describe In words To those who never knew God's light No mind or imagination can make them realize He is obscured, hidden, but eternal No sea can drown him Nor sky grow dark around him In no words can I describe the mercy of God Yet his presence evident on the wings of a bird in the air He has honored me and protected my heart against abuses I saw my eternal house in a dream Lest I forget I draw its splendor For the sharp-witted and judicious In the folds of the clouds