text:  O strong as the Eagle O mild as the Dove! How like and how unlike O Death and O Love! Knitting Earth to the Heaven The Near to the Far-- With the step on the dust And the eyes on the star! Interweaving commingling _Both_ rays from God's light! Now in sun now in shadow Ye shift to the sight! Ever changing the sceptres Ye bear--as in play; Now Love as Death rules us Now Death has Love's sway! Why wails so the New-born? Love gave it the breath