TERROR!! TERROR!!
On every side!
Lunging blockade
Cavernous hide
Shrieking, clanking
Ricochets space
Chiseled evil
Horrified face
Arms of armor
Motherly clutch
Smothers wailing
with pressing touch
“Eloi! Eloi!
Forsake us not!
My God! My God!
Is this our lot?”
Eden trembles
Tyranny thrusts
Spotless slaughtered
Returns to dust
Bloodstained tunic
Swaddling shroud
Sorrow piercing
Behold your child—
In dry bedrock, up wells life breath . . .
Christ-Cornerstone vanquishes death!
Guiltless victims, pure innocence
Your sweet souls now taste blissfulness.
