The Book Of Thel

Holy Thursday [11.]

Is this a holy thing to see,

In a rich and fruitful land,

Babes reducd to misery,

Fed with cold and usurous hand

Is that trembling cry a song

Can it be a song of joy

1. "And Adam and Eve heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day

(Genesis 3.8).

And so many children poor

It is a land of poverty!

And their sun does never shine,

And their fields are bleak & bare,

And their ways are filPd with thorns;

It is eternal winter there.

For where-e'er the sun does shine,

And where-e'er the rain does fall,

Babe can never hunger there,

Nor poverty the mind appall.