Look: gnawed and bleached, dismembered bones, a desert valley strewn with stones,
a metaphor of hopelessness,
for people worn with weariness.
It took a poet's way with thought,
an image that his mind had caught:
imagine flesh and new found life,
a counter to historic strife.
Verses 3-5 follow
Tune: AFFECTION; GALILEE
Metre: LM
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 3/5/2012 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk.
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