The Second Coming

The saints, whose names fill Heaven's roll,
Their ardent praises e'er outpour,
Yet all await the sev'n-sealed scroll.
And silence great doth still their roar
As now is giv'n the Lamb His right;
He wicked husbandmen doth send
His wrath in searing pain and fright,
With flame and plague the earth doth rend.

On steed of white descendeth He,
Fire in His eyes, His words a sword!
When His dread Holiness they see,
All nations own Him as their Lord
Too late; He judgeth them in might,
The earth doth raze and form anew,
Doth bring Jerus'lem down in light,
And reigneth there, fore'er in view!

—9/4/2010? On Rev 4-22. To “Jerusalem (Parry)” (“And did those feet, in ancient time”).

A/N 11/25/25: Not sure what to think about this one any more. I far less disingenuously anticipate our Lord's appearing than when I wrote it, and I have been far more humbled since then. “Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! / Why would you have the day of the LORD? / It is darkness, and not light” (Amos 5:18) versus “the crown of righteousness... which the Lord will award... to all who have loved his appearing” (2 Tim 4:8).