13 Morningside Cathedral Aria

The Emergent Universe Oratorio
Morningside Cathedral
Whale song from
the deep of the sea.
Wolf cry from the forest.

Heartbeat
of a planet.

This cry
Our Revelation
As the sun
Sinks lower
In the sky
Over a wounded
World.

And the healing
Of the wound
Is there in
A single cry
A throat opened wide
For the wild
Sacred sound…
Hovering over
The darkening earth,

Beseeching humankind
To bring back the Sun,
To let the flowers
Bloom in the meadows
The rivers run
Through the hills
And to let
The Earth and all
Her living creatures
Live their wild fierce
Serene and abundant life.

Thomas Berry


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