William Preston Johnston - Reason lyrics

THE budding world was in its bloomstrewn prime, And from it Nature rose, a temple vast; Its architects, twin Titans, Space and Time, Rested, their handiwork complete, when last Into the pageant a new Being pa**ed, The one appointed in the splendid shrine High priest, o'er all his soverein sway to cast And fill the void with energy divine. For all the beams from stars, moon, sun, that shine Could not from Nature lift the dreary pall Till on man's brow was set the imperial sign Of the self-conscious soul that saw it all In the clear light of reason, which to men Came through the window opened from Heaven then.