I Will sing of Evolution:
A song of the atom —
A song of the star —
A song of the soul!
God is the name of two Lovers
Each other eternally wooing:
Love and Life!
Love is all light and is lonely
Until He finds Life;
Life too is lonely
Until in her seeking
Love has been found.
Over the peaks and the plains
Of an infinite universe
These Lovers are ever
Each other finding and losing:
Whenever they meet there is birth,
Whenever they part there is death!
Birth and Death!
What does it mean we are born?
What does it mean that we die?
I make answer:
That which of Love and of Life is begotten
Fails as to form of itself only —
Not Self but its eidolon fails —
So Love and Life part to prepare for Self new forms;
Birth is a form of the Self once more appearing —
Self who is child of these Lovers eternally wooing!
How many births, deaths have we known!
Eternally going out of the urge of Love for Life,
We are the Sons of the Highest!
Atom and star and flesh,
These are but forms of the Soul;
Amoeba, mastodon, man,
But forms of the Soul forever ascending!
The Soul is more than the form,
Abides there merely a moment;
The Soul is a pilgrim
Housed for the night in a hostel:
New habitations meet for his needs are provided,
Yea, they are builded by Love and by Life —
Builded by them for their Only Begotten.