Lies God all red before me, and I am glad,

As the Magi were when they saw the rosy brow

Of the Infant bless their constant folly which had

Brought them thither to God: for now I know

That the Womb is a great red passion whence rises all

The shapeliness that decks us here-below:

Yea like the fire that boils within this ball

Of earth, and quickens all herself with flowers,

God burns within the stiffened clay of us;

And every flash of thought that we and ours