Only a speck in creation,
Only an atom of dust,
Only a generation
Reeking with pride and lust;
Only a race in its blindness
Far from the living God,
Scorning His loving-kindness,
Daring His wrath and rod;
Just a procession of people
Bent on their wilful way,
Boasting a cross and a steeple,
Temple and holy day;
Bent upon money-making,
Grasping at doubtful gain,
Bartering, giving, taking,
Busy with heart and brain;
Death all about them throwing
Arrows that smite and slay,
Time eternally flowing,
Bearing its wrecks away;
Kingdoms rising and falling,
Sceptres trod in the dust,
Horror to horror calling,
Murder, robbery, lust;
Razzia, ruin, ravage,
Pestilence, famine, fear,
Brutes with a nature savage,
Hell in this earthly sphere;
Death in the earth and under,
Death in the sea and air,
Death where they plot and plunder,
Death where the souls despair;
Heaven and earth and ocean,
Thunders, earthquakes and storms,
Continents in commotion,
Faithful and false alarms;
Tempests and waters roaring,
Iron and clay at war,
Men to God
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