Homewood Hymn
John Clare Stokes
Behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. Isaiah 5:30b
Does a new day bring light?
Has the light swallowed the dark?
Come day a squint into bright
The beams still painfully sharp.
On goes the gauze again
In streams the soothing dark
Not ready to walk in gleams
of light beams deadly sharp
Many meant for the night
Few called to walk wide waking
Freed from the terrible fright
Always giving, never once taking
In countless wards the halt
The little wars raging on
Light brigades assault for naught
the darkness ever so strong
Allured to the prospect of sight
We wave the white flag and stare
into the blinding beams of night
as captured we fall into the lair
Hand on shoulder on shoulder on
the line of the lame snakes along
Til all glimmers are finally gone
No one remaining to recall home
And in the darkened chapel quiet
Faint songs from opened hymns
A remnant chants into the night
Stokes the embers and remembers
Homewood and all of them.
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