1. God, brilliant Lord,yours is a household name.
2. Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you;toddlers shout the songsThat drown out enemy talk,and silence atheist babble.
3-4. I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous,your handmade sky-jewelry,Moon and stars mounted in their settings.Then I look at my micro-self and wonder,Why do you bother with us?Why take a second look our way?
5-8. Yet we’ve so narrowly missed being gods,bright with Eden’s dawn light.You put us in charge of your handcrafted world,repeated to us your Genesis-charge,Made us lords of sheep and cattle,even animals out in the wild,Birds flying and fish swimming,whales singing in the ocean deeps.
9. God, brilliant Lord,your name echoes around the world.