Each time that I switch on the light A Miracle it seems to me That I should rediscover sight And banish dark so utterly. One moment I am bleakly blind, The next--exultant life I find. Below the sable of the sky My eyelids double darkness make. Sleep is divine, yet oh how I Am glad with wonder to awake! To welcome, glimmery and wan The mighty Miracle of Dawn. For I've mad moments when I seem, With all the marvel of a child, To dwell within a world of dream, To sober fact unreconciled. Each simple act has struck me thus-- Incredibly miraculous. When everything I see and do So magical can seem to me, How vain it is to seek the True, The riddle of Reality . . . So let me with joy lyrical Proclaim all Life a Miracle! Robert Service