Calendar of the Soul

  I feel the force of cosmic life:
  Thus speaks my clarity of thought,
  Recalling its own spirit growth
  Through nights of cosmic darkness,
  And to the new approach of cosmic day
  It turns its inward rays of hope.

  Ich fühle Kraft des Weltenseins:
  So spricht Gedankenklarheit,
  Gedenkend eignen Geistes Wachsen
  In finstern Weltennächten,
  Und neigt dem nahen Weltentage
  Des Innern Hoffnungsstrahlen.

  `I feel the puissant Being of the World,'
  so speaks a cloudless mind
  recalling dark World-winter-nights, wherethrough
  its spiritual stature grew,
  and the bright hope within it points it there
  where the new Daylight-of-the-world draws near.