Lullaby

O!, for a voice like thunder! And a tongue to drown the throat of war.
When the senses are shaken and the souls are driven to madness,
Who can stand?
When the souls of the oppressed fight in the troubled air that rages,
Who can stand?
When a whirlwind of fury comes from the throne of God and the frowns of Its countenance drives the nations together,
Who can stand?
When Sin clasps its broad wings over the battle and sails rejoicing in a flood of Death,
when souls are torn to everlasting fire and fiends of hell rejoice upon the slain!,
O, who can stand?
O, who hath caused this?
O, who can answer at the throne of God!
The kings and the nobles of the land have done it.
Hear me not Heaven, thy ministers have done it!



(William Blake)
(Loreena Mckennitt, Douglas Campbell, Falkwer Lorne)