Who Will Silence the Lord?

by Walt Garlington (April 2025)

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‘The heavens declare the Glory of God’ —
_________And the devil hates the words they speak.
‘The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof’ —
_________But the demons want it for themselves.
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No generation is safe from the scheming
_________Of the evil ones to silence You,
To expel You from Your own creation—
_________First by nailing You upon the Tree,
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Then burying Your life-creating Cross
_________And death-destroying grave underneath
A temple of a heathen goddess.
_________They cut out the tongues of your confessors,
And break the icons bearing Your Precious Face.
_________The relics of Your saints they burn,
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The verdant surface of the earth they deface
_________With the grey ugliness of cities
That obscure Your beauty, and with machines
_________That prod us on toward sin and death.
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But the Lord, the Mighty Lord, will never
_________Be vanquished! Crucify Him, and He
Resurrects. Bury His Cross, and It appears
_________In the sky. Remove a Christian’s tongue,
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And he will speak miraculously withal.
_________Destroy the saints’ relics and a sweet
Fragrance, a pillar of fire, or an awful
_________Storm will present themselves to the senses.
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Though the earth and man be marred a thousand times
_________In a thousand ways, they will be restored
By His transforming power radiating
_________From His Church—the angels’ Liturgy,
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The prayers and touch of holy women
_________And holy men, regeneration
In the waters of baptism, oneness
_________With Christ, deification, by eating
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Of the Flesh and Blood of His ascended Body.
_________And one bright day this war will cease,
Evil be swept away, the reign of God
_________Will be with man on earth forever,
And the lustrous Light of His Countenance
_________Will shine from within all created things.
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Come, Lord Jesus. Hallelujah, amen!
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Walt Garlington was born and raised in that part of Dixieland called Louisiana. A chemical engineer by training, he has spent the last several years writing full-time. He has written essays and poems for The Hayride, New English Review, The Tenth Amendment Center, The Abbeville Institute, Reckonin’, Katehon, Geopolitica, and USA Really. He writes regularly at his own web site, Confiteri: A Southern Perspective.

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