I've Seen You Walk the Green Earth
I’ve seen you walk the green earth lightly through
and touched the bed of sorrow where you lay,
then watched you wake, fresh with christening dew,
morning’s child come to light another day.
The virgin spring where all your sorrows drown
runs deep and sweet to bless the thirsty ground.
Thus, in your eyes all things, conceivèd new,
find hope again to start their earthly round
of doing, grasping, struggling — dying too,
when Spring’s rebirth is waking to the sound
of breathing you in shining bridal lay:
the blue of you is seen where flowers pray.
Most lovely, sweet, serene, my morning love
brings light and music — comforts from above.
Christopher M. Swan, "Song of Susan," 2008
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