["Down Memory Lane" posts are a new feature of Excerpted Inspirations, where we present a passage from a past or present Swedenborgian women's published work.]
"Glory be to God for order, form --
for planets round their suns, for daisy petals
like lashes round the sunny eye of day;
For cycles; the eye at the center of the wheeling storm;
for all that rises and ferments; for all that settles
in its own time and sphere and in its own way;
Everything measured, symmetrical, framed, enclosed;
whatever has tension, rhythm, focus, poise;
All things composing because they have been composed
by One who intends, provides, and informs my joys."
-Lyris Hyatt, Lyris: Poems and Selections by Lyris Hyatt (1988), p. 49