The Rain and Wind

from Send My Roots Rain by Joseph Bottum

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The Rain and Wind
reimagining “The Golden Vanity” (c. 1780)

Have you caught the stars that fall?
Have you seen the dead who rise?
For I woke in the night to a rage that filled the skies.
And I heard the captains call
through the rain and wind,
and I saw the world begin to end.

There’s a fire on the sea
and a fury in the deep.
There’s a storm that has called great Leviathan from sleep,
and he hears the sailors’ plea
through the rain and wind,
and he hungers for the world to end.

All the children slain newborn,
all that Herod had struck down—
oh, they’ll rise up in red where their blood had stained the ground,
and they’ll sound the huntsman’s horn
through the rain and wind,
and they’ll ride with Death until the end.

For surely God will break this world
like a stick in His great hands,
and the angels will tremble to hear His last commands.
Can’t you see that justice comes
through the rain and wind?
Can’t you see the world begin to end?

There’ll be justice in this world
through the rain and wind.
There’ll be justice in this world
at the end.

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from Send My Roots Rain, released August 21, 2014

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