Once more let the verseS* speak —
Swan — for our people,
So that they may receive it —
The name of your soul —
(From the ugly duckling —
For the Greeks, like Phoenix and Prometheus).
Swan — to say it in English.

In other languages —
Kyknos, Olor, Cigno and Svanur,
Bagbu, Cisne, Labud and Angsa —
They do not touch Jur in prayer —
Here is the constant —

The Light of the Living God —
So openly to my eyes.
The great — from the feeble and the small —
Uriah Swan.

Read verseS with the stress on the last I