I have great faith in all things not yet spoken.

I want my deepest pious feelings freed.

What no one yet has dared to risk and warrant

will be for me a challenge I must meet.

If this presumptious seems, God, may I be forgiven.

For what I want to say to you is this:

my efforts shall be like a driving force,

quite without anger, without timidness

as little children show their love for you.

With these outflowing, river-like, with deltas

that spread like arms to reach the open sea,

with the recurrent tides that never cease

will I acknowledge you, will I proclaim you

as no one ever has before.

And if this should be arrogance, so let me

arrogant be to justify my prayer

that stands so serious and so alone

before your forehead, circled by the clouds.