Words: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems, 1917, alt. Music: Creation, , 1798. Alternate tune:
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O God, I cried, no dark disguise
Can e’er hereafter hide from me
Thy radiant identity,
Thy radiant identity!
I know the path that tells the way
Thro’ the cool eve of every day.
God, I can push the grass apart
And lay my finger on Thy heart.
The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky—
No higher than the soul is high.
The heart can push the sea and land
Farther away on either hand;
The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine thro’.