WHO CAN CONTAIN THE WORLD ITS BITTER SEAS

 

WHO CAN CONTAIN THE WORLD ITS BITTER SEAS

Who can contain the world its bitter seas

Its sudden shipwrecks and its great unease

Not one of us

Who understands how not to be engulfed by it

But for the grace of Christ

Who understood it all

The loss of Eden

And the poet scrawl

Lamenting it forever;

But finding still

In all of nature

A healing will

And wells of beauty not dried up.

Oh for our sakes he drained a bitter cup

The bitterness of it all

And death was overcome

Then for us all

And our inheritance set right.

And all the spangled beauty of the starry night

REJOICE!

mary angela douglas 19 april 2024