ANTISTROPHE 5

Light of light, name of names,

Whose shadows are live flames,

The soul that moves the wings of worlds upon their way;

Life, spirit, blood and breath

In time and change and death

Substant through strength and weakness, ardour and decay;

Lord of the lives of lands,

Spirit of man, whose hands

Weave the web through wherein man's centuries fall as prey;

That art within our will

Power to make, save, and kill,

Knowledge and choice, to take extremities and weigh;

In the soul's hand to smite

Strength, in the soul's eye sight;

That to the soul art even as is the soul to clay;

Now to this people be

Love; come, to set them free,

With feet that tread the night, with eyes that sound the day.