Magic Lantern Days

Hail the blest atomic morn

Unto the earth a bomb is born

The pebble bed reactor core

Up to the sky ascends.

Hail the blest atomic sea,

Its mouth in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Whose lips--untouched with blasphemy--

Our glowing eyes attend

Bishops wrapped in Bedford cloth

Said pride would cast our victories off,

The Deep Blue to our Kasparov

Our moral thoughts impart.

"The city dumps fill the junkyards

Fill the madhouses fill the hospitals

Fill the graveyards fill not nothing else fills"

Neither time nor I can hold your

1985 Chernobyl heart.

Brightest and best

Are the children of the morning.

Dawn on our darkness

And lend us thine aid" {SHH 132}.

In unmysterious ways

We re-enacted closet plays

From charming, Magic Lantern days

For the android whales below (thank you Harvey)

You'd be cast as the Nazarene

In the unrepenting desert scene

Near to me, your Mary Magdalene,

Our Lady of the Snow,

Brightest and best

Are the children of the morning.

Dawn on our darkness

and lend us thine aid

Star of the west, the horizon deforming,

Too many humans

Under the brown fog of winter

Come dawn in our darkness.

Lend us thine aid

Guide where our infant redeemer is laid

Guide where our infant redeemer is laid

Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid