Genesis I

And when in that first moment of the made,
There was but light, and light could find no shade,
A world appeared, and after, moon and sun
Upon day four; and when with sixth begun,
The eyeballed creatures saw the bounds of light
And thereby they perceived the shadowed night,
A shield from coming day, with lesser beam
And pupil wide to see in softer gleam
Before they closed their wearied eyes to rest.
Like Spirit hovered over earthen nest,
The night prefigured day, as formless void
Foreshadowed from the deep the call deployed
In "'Let there be...'" and then, "And it was so...
And there was night and day...." And man below,
With rhyme and reason mingled in his mind,
In deeper dream soon found himself reclined
In rest on Sabbath day, and wondered he,
"If night prefigures day, what could it be
That day prefigures with its blinding ray
But glory of a bright eternal day?"
     With him, we wait for God who is the Light
     To come and overcome the shadowed night.