‘Who Will Silence the Lord?’

 

‘The heavens declare the Glory of God’ –

            And the devil hates the words they speak.

‘The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof’ –

            But the demons want it for themselves.

 

No generation is safe from the scheming

            Of the evil ones to silence You,

To expel You from Your own creation –

            First by nailing You upon the Tree,

 

Then burying Your life-creating Cross

            And death-destroying grave underneath

A temple of a heathen goddess.

            They cut out the tongues of your confessors,

And break the icons bearing Your Precious Face.

            The relics of Your saints they burn,

 

The verdant surface of the earth they deface

            With the grey ugliness of cities

That obscure Your beauty, and with machines

            That prod us on toward sin and death.

 

But the Lord, the Mighty Lord, will never

            Be vanquished!  Crucify Him, and He

Resurrects.  Bury His Cross, and It appears

            In the sky.  Remove a Christian’s tongue,

 

And he will speak miraculously withal.

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The rest is at https://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/who-will-silence-the-lord/.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!