Friday, August 07, 2009

The Oaks of Mamre

'Neath this tree where Avram sat
With the LORD whom he'd earlier met
Hence and where was salvation's plan set
Whence G`d was there when Avram pled:

"Peradventure there be fifty save five,
Would you still that they be spared alive?"

And G'd leaned back, His eyes arise,
"Though there be ten just righteous in life,"
The LORD answered without a strife,
"They will I spare alive."

Might the serafim sat in disbelief
How strange an answer that G'd should give
But every heart is a tree beneath
Thence and where G'd would sit
Waiting, waiting for that to breathe
That avramic voice of I believe

~ Fall 1978

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