Tune: Louvan
('Lord of all being, throned afar')
Isaiah 2 v.2-5
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It shall come to pass in last days
Mount of the LORD's house, the LORD says
Shall be established, top of mounts
It shall be dispensing life's founts
And above the hills exalted
All nations flow to it, be led
Many people shall say, Come you
Let us go there, and I go too
To the house of God, there will He
Teach us His ways, and we shall be
They who walk in His paths, for out
Of Zion goes His words, no doubt
He shall judge amidst the nations
All classes, creeds, and all stations
Rebuking many, turn they shall
From sin and evil and do well
Shall beat their swords into plow-shares
Beat spears to pruning knives, no cares
To lift up sword, nor to learn war
Living in the LORD's light e'ermore
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: December 1st, 2020 03:19
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.8.8.8. metre. I've not gone back to start the 66 Chapters of Isaiah again - phew! A couple of earlier Chapters gave me cues for poems.
- Category: Spiritual
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Comments3
Should that be a Prominent Piece? Good write O
Thanks M. It could be either, I suppose. You got them swords and spears? You beating them down into instruments of peace - plow-shares and pruning knives? I gotta do all me weapons that I used in 1066 - melt them down, re-shape them, etc.
'Shall beat their swords into plow-shares
Beat spears to pruning knives, no cares
To lift up sword, nor to learn war',
wonderful lines of laudably pacifist Poetry
Thanks LB.
Good one Orchi.
Thanks Gold.
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