Reversion

Once To Every Man and Nation

“No need to keep inventing things now that Neanderthals are back in charge.”

So, our choice becomes more stark, clearer.

We either submit to the basest motives of our beleaguered species – an eye for an eye – or we refuse to return to a world in which every exchange is transactional.

Win-lose.

“Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.”

The words to a hymn in the Episcopal hymnal, that was removed from the new version in 1982 because it seemed to make the division between good and evil, too stark. Too primitive.

Final verse:

“Though the cause of evil prosper, yet tis truth alone is strong;

“Though her portion be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong:

“Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown,

“Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.”

Doesn’t feel so primitive right now, does it?