text: Moments of the soft persuasion
  Chiming bells, the first occasion
  Tell the rest a smile awaken
  Till the last reminder shaken
  From whatever rude and sorrow;
  Now, the time is now-tomorrow
  Chorus:
  In the instant of remaking
  Just the giving of the taking
  In the instant of the living
  Just the taking of the giving
  Nothing more than earth and water
  Smiles of spring from barren daughter
  Who at last in perfect motion
  Turning round embrace the ocean
  Gracious calf of mankind suffering;
  Sacrifice of old is ending
  Moments of the soft persuasion
  Chiming bells, the first occasion
  Tell the rest a smile awaken
  Till the last reminder shaken
  From whatever rude and sorrow;
  Now, the time is now-tomorrow