How Overcast The Earth When Men Must Keep Their Jobs Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

(to the courts of Heaven in an evil time)

how overcast the earth when men must keep their jobs

and let the Dragon live where what is to be done is nothing

but the lucrative



not mention to the one dim rising star



where God is I am though it be too hard

let brimstone leak where man soft hour by hour

let the Dragon the lost town devour



than speak one word of comfort to the few

who stand in wind and fire to spoil the view

how overcast, how sorrowful the Sun



that casts itself into a summer sea

and would forever for true liberty

and for the sake of love, Christ's love unending



lose all



lose all

lose all.



mary angela douglas 31 march 2020