Down through the ether

I hurl constellations;

Up from their earth-bed

I wake the carnations.

I laugh in the flame

As I kindle and fan it;

I crawl in the worm;

I leap in the planet.

Forth from its cradle

I pilot the river;

In lightning and earthquake

I flash and I quiver.

My breath is the wind;

My bosom the ocean;

My form's undefined;

My essence is motion.

The braggarts of science

Would weigh and divide me;

Their wisdom evading,

I vanish and hide me.

My glances are rays

From stars emanating;

My voice through the spheres

Is sound, undulating.

I am the monarch

Uniting all matter:

The atoms I gather;

The atoms I scatter.

I pulse with the tides -

Now hither, now thither;

I grant the tree sap;

I bid the bud wither.

I always am present,

Yet nothing can bind me;