I call upon the noble earth To give me strength through day and night; Her granite and her gems of worth Are tokens of her various might. And from her shores the endless sea In calm and tempest girds the sphere, And like the earth the waters free Shall be my trust against all fear. Above the earth and waters free The air enfolds the globe's fair breast In it good spirits do abide; I count on them in strife and rest. And last of all the golden fire Shall be my great and strong ally; The goodly powers that never tire Are all my strength below, on high. I bind unto myself today The virtues of the star-lit heav'n, The glorious sun's life giving ray, The whiteness of the moon at eve; The flashing of the lightning free, The whirling wind's tempestuous shocks, The stable earth, the deep salt sea, Around the old eternal rocks.