Lord, they who trust you stand like heights,
unshaken in your strength,
but sorrow comes in with the night
and rivers burst their banks.
And when the mountains fall like tears,
how shall we stand our ground?
Amid the locust-eaten years
what harvest have we found?
The field, the grain, the wine, the oil,
you sent us in their time,
and blood and pain and sweat and toil
around your gifts were twined.
Now we reach up with empty hands
to an unfeeling sky:
O, send you blessing on the land!
we beg with throats gone dry.
Somewhere there is a table spread
by one who knows our need—
the goodness of the wine and bread—
where we will sit and feast.
And more than bread and more than wine
will fill these empty hands.
You send your good things in their time:
Send peace to us again.
By Floris van Dyck – The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=150586
Kate Bluett 