Who among you has not laid his head   beneath some holy awning   Would think that such a night of tortured travelling   Could bring such a glory morning   And feel his heart sucked to his head   His head so wide that all life says   Has room to live and breathe and have its being - and more   For such a scene of beauty    For such a scene of beauty    encompasses      See the white bird on the water   In beauty calm and still      White bird, white bird, white bird   Of the morning   White bird, white bird,       White bird, white bird, white bird   Of the morning   White bird, white bird,       See he watches the white bird   of the morning   White bird, white bird,       See he watches the white bird   of the morning   White bird, white bird,       Warm in his ecstasy   A shimmering gentle backward fall   He leaves his body there so small and mirror black against the sun   With deities for strength   He sees his body wracked with pain   And hears his voice so stained with sadness deep   It asks the day to weep away      Loved her so strong now   She is gone   My heart will break for ever      Sun and moon change around   Me the games seem so strange      Walk in the light   I shall never   Walk in the light   I will never   White bird, white bird, white bird   Of the morning   White bird, white bird,       White bird, white bird, white bird   Of the morning   White bird, white bird,       White bird, white bird, white bird   Of the morning   White bird, white bird,       White bird, white bird, white bird   Of the morning   White bird, white bird,          Speak to me with your beauty    oh white bird of the morning   Oh he cried Oh he cried   But stopped    short   Seeing not water but ice   death not life   dead white bird dead white bird         Walking onward every day   Sunshine in our faces      Sun knows what goes on below   But still our faces graces   No disgraces   No distastes   Nothing wasted at all      White bird, white bird, white bird   Of the morning   White bird, white bird