How Long

How long can rolling waters stay

impure in their decree?

How long can all the world behold 

the many signs they see,

and not consider what is meant,

and come to understand -

the fig tree has sent forth her leaves,

the summer’s nigh at hand.

 

What power can stay the heavens?

Does the world possess the force?

Can man with puny arm turn back 

a river from its course?

For it is written -

“Every jot and tittle must fulfill.”

The day rolls on and God doth move

according to his will.

 

But it would seem mankind will not

allow the signs they see

to soften heart, and open mind,

and fall on bended knee.

Ere long the scripture stands in place,

and sadly it is true -

“They that are called be many...

and the chosen are but few.”