O Morning, What Morning!

O Morning, What Morning!

Walk through a world full of glitter and shine

With frost on the rooftops, vine laden, iced wine

The sun glowing dimly, still waking and low

Each moment it rises, a shimmering show

The sky set ablaze as light filters down

How radiant the colour of light's wondrous crown

A sight, a beauty, this glorious morn

Dazzling, extravagant, when each day is born

Joy comes in the morning, each day made anew

O mercy come swiftly! Thou warmth, bright and true!

The dawn is breaking, the light overtaking,

Shadows of darkness, fleeing, forsaking

From slumber, awake, ye olde sleepy one!

Open thy heavy eyes, the night is undone!

Gather ye round to see this sight!

The day has arrived; bid farewell to the night!

Arise and partake of thy daily bread

Encounter life's lessons, heed life's words said

Listen to how a bird will go on

How it calls and it sings its newest of song

Pale with chill in the morn's frosty air

Blowing stalks, branches, a dance done with care

Beams cast gazes upon empty streets

Stretch out thy limbs, make wide mouthed yawn

Let morning flood in as curtains are drawn

The chatter of critters become daybreak's beats

With the soft light cometh last leaves falling

The red, yellow, orange; blushed Autumn's graceful calling

Give thanks for the blessings to thee given kindly

And graciously back in return ye must, kind, be

For life and for health and for song and thy kin

What abundant magnificence each day allows in

From a desolate deep to a lit amber hue

Those once asleep rise up renewed

Breezy cool whispers enchant all the more

Promised in mysterious myth, legend, lore

Upward melodical miles it goes

Each longitude's hope, how greatly it grows

Dawn somehow shatters and chases our foes

What mystery's workings, only God, Himself knows

Daylight brings with it the bold and the free

It feeds the heart, the sky, and the tree

Earth robed with light, the garment of day

He has clothed her and crowned her, and loved her this way

Wrought with wisdom, strong and pure

Folly has faltered with light steady and sure

Exposed are the daft, the unsober scurry

Their deeds in the light, they scatter and hurry

Cast aside the fear and the doubt

Be not afraid, darkness has gone out

The bitter, the sweet, at once give place

Forget not the sorrows, yet lose not thy face

The sunlight laid bare, raw esteem bright and fair

Pray tell, does majesty sit greatly there

Canopied crests lay dim less and less

Upon all its mark, lain to impress

O Morning, what morning, how convincing thou art

Thou takest my breath, and hast stolen my heart

O Morning, such beauty, potential, and wonder

In loving thy charm, caught in thy web, under

How vast and how spacious, extent of thy grace,

Humility, meekness, what loving embrace!

How blossoms from night into day like a flower

How sacred this time, how solemn this hour

Suffer me not to forget thy grandeur

Ye bow in thy chastity, in innocence lure

Thou invitest me in to dine at thy table

The fast of midnight, ensuring I'm able

Spreading wide the feast of feasts

The gate, the door, she opens yonder East

It seems though the frost has frozen time still

Eternity placed in one moment's will

Precious the counts, the tock and the tick

How it lingers mid-step, and then fades away quick.

Loyally living this day that won't last

Yet honouring, keeping ancient vigil of past

Silently nodding to that which comes 'round

In stillness, obedience; what golden sound

No tears or no utt'rance thee gently submit

Thy glory, the givest, keeping not it

How gracious and willing though takest the toil

So others may live and beauty not spoil

Address all now, telling horizon's tale

Speak of the coming reverent gale

Daylight shining, come with haste

Hither to, spare none, no time waste

Henceforth shall be union of

Organic earth and heavens above

O Morning, what morning, thou endless delight

Ye opened my heart and set it in flight

O Morning from dawn until dusk thou dost wane

'Til thou reappear in the East once again