The Divorce
Light, of two elements the unison, Of air and fire, where one and one are one, Performs the office of division,
Enacts that earth from water sunder, sever, Keeping their separate properties forever, Hill, valley, mountain; ocean, lake, and river.
To each its own identity and sign, Texture and color, boundary and line, Motion and rest, the lift, the flow, the shine,
The melody, magnificence and mirth All more intense, all given brighter worth By this divorce of water and of earth.
O friends and witnesses, rejoice, approve The single happiness in which they move; Give them your fondest blessing, and your love.
What one made two, nothing will render one: Darkness will overrule my lord the sun, Darkness, annulment and negation,
The sable reconciler, who remembers The vain petitions of unending numbers, Brings them together in his solemn chambers.