L'engle love

thesibylqueen's icon reminded me of the verse from A Swiftly Tilting Planet that I loved so in my youth.

In this fateful hour
All Heaven with its power
The sun with its brightness
The snow with its whiteness
The fire with all the strength it hath
The lightning with its rapid wrath
The winds with their swiftness
The sea with its deepness
The rocks with their steepness
The earth with its starkness
All these I place
By God's almighty help and grace
Between myself and the powers of darkness

I really need to replace my copies of her books.