REVELATION
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away.”—Revelation XXI:1
By John Jerome Rooney
The Lord God said to His angel: “Let the old things pass away.They have heaped the earth with slaughter their sin obscures the day.Roll up the night on a curtain: let the stars fade one by one:Out of the face of the heavens my anger shall blot the sun.For the man I made and breathed on, filled with my breath of breath,Hath sown the seas with hatred, his skies are dark with death.The babe is slain at the bosom, the babe who beholds my face;A welter of woe he leaves it,—the dream of my love and grace.“Love was the dower I gave him, love the light of his days,Love the core of his being, love, and the upward gaze.Hate is the meat he feeds on, hate is his daily bread:His drink is the blood of his brother, whom Cain hath stricken dead.I said to the man in the Garden: ‘Where is thy brother, Cain?’‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ now comes the answer again.”The Lord God said to His angel: “This Thing is accursed and a lie:It hath sinned from the Law I gave it, and surely it shall die.”“The Beasts of the field are patient, the birds rejoice in song,—But what is this Thing of blood-lust, and where does it belong?Lo, I shall establish a judgment: Let the old things pass away:They have heaped the fields with slaughter: their sin defiles the day.They have laid on the weak sore burdens, on the just, their whips and ban:For a handful of crimsoned silver they have kissed the Son of Man.Roll back the scroll of the heavens; from out of the womb of birthCome forth new heavens untainted; come forth, renewed, the Earth!”
The Lord God said to His angel: “Let the old things pass away.They have heaped the earth with slaughter their sin obscures the day.Roll up the night on a curtain: let the stars fade one by one:Out of the face of the heavens my anger shall blot the sun.For the man I made and breathed on, filled with my breath of breath,Hath sown the seas with hatred, his skies are dark with death.The babe is slain at the bosom, the babe who beholds my face;A welter of woe he leaves it,—the dream of my love and grace.“Love was the dower I gave him, love the light of his days,Love the core of his being, love, and the upward gaze.Hate is the meat he feeds on, hate is his daily bread:His drink is the blood of his brother, whom Cain hath stricken dead.I said to the man in the Garden: ‘Where is thy brother, Cain?’‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ now comes the answer again.”The Lord God said to His angel: “This Thing is accursed and a lie:It hath sinned from the Law I gave it, and surely it shall die.”“The Beasts of the field are patient, the birds rejoice in song,—But what is this Thing of blood-lust, and where does it belong?Lo, I shall establish a judgment: Let the old things pass away:They have heaped the fields with slaughter: their sin defiles the day.They have laid on the weak sore burdens, on the just, their whips and ban:For a handful of crimsoned silver they have kissed the Son of Man.Roll back the scroll of the heavens; from out of the womb of birthCome forth new heavens untainted; come forth, renewed, the Earth!”
The Lord God said to His angel: “Let the old things pass away.They have heaped the earth with slaughter their sin obscures the day.Roll up the night on a curtain: let the stars fade one by one:Out of the face of the heavens my anger shall blot the sun.For the man I made and breathed on, filled with my breath of breath,Hath sown the seas with hatred, his skies are dark with death.The babe is slain at the bosom, the babe who beholds my face;A welter of woe he leaves it,—the dream of my love and grace.
The Lord God said to His angel: “Let the old things pass away.
They have heaped the earth with slaughter their sin obscures the day.
Roll up the night on a curtain: let the stars fade one by one:
Out of the face of the heavens my anger shall blot the sun.
For the man I made and breathed on, filled with my breath of breath,
Hath sown the seas with hatred, his skies are dark with death.
The babe is slain at the bosom, the babe who beholds my face;
A welter of woe he leaves it,—the dream of my love and grace.
“Love was the dower I gave him, love the light of his days,Love the core of his being, love, and the upward gaze.Hate is the meat he feeds on, hate is his daily bread:His drink is the blood of his brother, whom Cain hath stricken dead.I said to the man in the Garden: ‘Where is thy brother, Cain?’‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ now comes the answer again.”The Lord God said to His angel: “This Thing is accursed and a lie:It hath sinned from the Law I gave it, and surely it shall die.”
“Love was the dower I gave him, love the light of his days,
Love the core of his being, love, and the upward gaze.
Hate is the meat he feeds on, hate is his daily bread:
His drink is the blood of his brother, whom Cain hath stricken dead.
I said to the man in the Garden: ‘Where is thy brother, Cain?’
‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ now comes the answer again.”
The Lord God said to His angel: “This Thing is accursed and a lie:
It hath sinned from the Law I gave it, and surely it shall die.”
“The Beasts of the field are patient, the birds rejoice in song,—But what is this Thing of blood-lust, and where does it belong?Lo, I shall establish a judgment: Let the old things pass away:They have heaped the fields with slaughter: their sin defiles the day.They have laid on the weak sore burdens, on the just, their whips and ban:For a handful of crimsoned silver they have kissed the Son of Man.Roll back the scroll of the heavens; from out of the womb of birthCome forth new heavens untainted; come forth, renewed, the Earth!”
“The Beasts of the field are patient, the birds rejoice in song,—
But what is this Thing of blood-lust, and where does it belong?
Lo, I shall establish a judgment: Let the old things pass away:
They have heaped the fields with slaughter: their sin defiles the day.
They have laid on the weak sore burdens, on the just, their whips and ban:
For a handful of crimsoned silver they have kissed the Son of Man.
Roll back the scroll of the heavens; from out of the womb of birth
Come forth new heavens untainted; come forth, renewed, the Earth!”