By Richard Mather
When He planted in the earth
a tree of life, a tree of death
(the latter with a curse of woe)
did God say that this was good?
And when He placed upon the grass
the serpent Satan and his crew,
did He ever stop to think
why the Devil envied God?
When Adam spied inside the bower
that Eve was naked and alone,
Was it Satan, was it God
Who put the worm in Adam’s blood?
And when God wept and cried some more
inside a cloud of smoke and gas,
was it then he drew the map
and timeline of the mighty Flood?
And when he slayed Abram’s son,
poor Isaac, on the crooked cross,
was that the point he heard the call
of the gentile Kierkegaard?
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