Daily thought - sunrise

I am that which began;

Out of me the years roll;

Out of me God and man;

I am equal and whole;

God changes, and man, and the form of them bodily;

I am the soul.

Before ever land was,

before ever the sea,

Or soft hair of the grass,

Or fair limbs of the tree,

Or the flesh-coloured fruit of the branches I was,

And thy soul was in me.

A.C. Swinburne, Hertha