They awoke In the days of twilight In a world That did not know the sun Looking up At the starlit heaven With the smile Of new-opened lives Earth was theirs, The pasture of their wonder The wide field Of soft songs in the air Names for things And the first glimpse of knowledge By the watery Mirror of the sky Unforeseen Primroses in winter Marvellous Miracles of time I saw them And forgot my own mind They were new Their beauty filled the world And Earth was theirs, The pasture of their wonder The wide field Of soft songs in the air Names for things And the first glimpse of knowledge By the watery Mirror of the sky Unforeseen Primroses in winter Marvellous Miracles of time Miracles of time Miracles of time Irradiated With their Maker’s splendour Elder Children Of the highest will Jewels of Earth To adorn the deathless Kingdom The Firstborn People of the Stars Miracles of time Miracles of time Miracles of time Irradiated With their Maker’s splendour Elder Children Of the highest will Jewels of Earth To adorn the deathless Kingdom The Firstborn People of the Stars Irradiated With their Maker’s splendour Elder Children Of the highest will Jewels of Earth To adorn the deathless Kingdom The Firstborn People of the Stars