Who saw the hid beginnings
When Chaos and Order strove,
Or who can date the morning,
The purple flaming of love?


I saw the hid beginnings
When Chaos and Order strove,
And I can date the morning prime
And purple flame of love.
 

Song breathed from all the forest,
The total air was fame;
It seemed the world was all torches
That suddenly caught the flame.


Is there never a retroscope mirror
In the realms and corners of space
That can give us a glimpse of the battle
And the soldiers face to face?


Sit here on the basalt courses
Where twisted hills betray
The seat of the world-old Forces
Who wrestled here on a day.


When the purple flame shoots up,
And Love ascends his throne,
I cannot hear your songs, O birds,
For the witchery of my own.


And every human heart
Still keeps that golden day
And rings the bells of jubilee
On its own First of May.