LAMB OF GOD__PRECIOUS ROSE OF SHARON

 

 

PRECIOUS ROSE OF SHARON___YIELD__
YOUR PRICELESS OIL FROM GLORY’S FIELD,

YOUR NAME AS OINTMENT POURED FOR ME.

THE OIL OF GLADNESS__SOVEREIGN__ FREE.

NO OTHER FLOWER LIKE YOU MY LORD

NOT ONE COULD MERE MAN E’R AFFORD

THE THORNY CROWN THAT WRAPPED YOUR

HEAD__

WITH STEMS OF ROSES LONG SINCE DEAD.

EDEN’S ANCIENT ROOT DREW BLOOD

FROM YOUR PIERCED AND THROBBING BROW.

OH CRUEL MAN__PLEASE TELL ME HOW

WITH OPEN EYES AND HEARTS TO SEE_

YOU NAILED GOD’S SON UPON THAT TREE?

NOW BLOOMING LILY WHITE AND FAIR __AMONGST HIS THORNY DAUGHTERS RARE

IN VALLEYS GREEN__WHERE OPEN SKIES

DECLARE WHAT OTHERS WILL DENY

THE FRAGRANCE OF SWEET EDEN’S ROSE__REVEALING WHAT NO FLESH MAN KNOWS.

NOW FILLS THE EARTH__THOSE KINGLY FEW

THEIR ORNAMENT AND PURCHASED CROWN

OH STEMS THAT WRAP MY HEAD AROUND

MADE LIVE FROM CRIMSON BLOOD THAT FLOWED

BLOOD THAT PAID THE PRICE I OWED

OH ROSE OF SHARON__LILY WHITE

OH OIL PRESSED OUT IN DARKEST NIGHT

SWEET FRAGRANCE FILLS MY LONGING SOUL__
BALM OF GILEAD BESTOWED 

I BOW MY HEAD WITH THIS DESIRE

PLANT IN ME__YOUR ROOT OF FIRE

TO BLOOM FROM THAT ETERNAL TREE

TO FILL THE EARTH THAT ALL MIGHT SEE
THE WORK YOU’VE WORKED,
 

PREDESTINED PLAN
 

BEFORE THE WORLDS HAD FOUND THEIR PLACE
 

FOREORDAINED IN INNER-SPACE

 

WHERE LIFE AND DEATH AND BIRTH ANEW
 

REVEALED THOSE THINGS WHICH ONCE I KNEW
 

THE GARDEN PATHS THAT I ONCE ROAMED

IN HEAVEN'S LIGHT THAT WAS MY HOME

 

WHERE ONCE I HEARD THE LIVING WORD
 

AND BOWED THE KNEE__IN SHARON'S WOOD
 

WHERE GREW THE WHITEST PRECIOUS ROSE

ON THORN-LESS BRANCH MY HEART NOW KNOWS
 

 

WITH ALL MY HEART__YOUR DAUGHTER WITH THORNS ____ SHEBET