"Let there be light!" Thus God Almighty spoke;
A breathless void to Life awoke
And lent pulsation to an inert Night;
Atomic space flashed light to light,
And from the mystic depths of Past, unfurled
The splendor of a new-born world.
"Let there be light!" God speaks to-day,
Hide not thyself in dark recess away,
Nor in the dim past faintly grope,
But in the present stand inspired by hope;
Thus with the living "daily bread,"
Not with the mould of Time shalt thou be fed.
"Let there be light!" Yea, if the light thou hast,
Flash it to every tribe and caste:
Not greed, nor selfish measure as an aim
Shall be the carrier of flame,
But Love and Honor, Justice, Truth, and Right:
God speaks, hark thou! "Let there be light!"
