A sphere of black the earth around

and daily year by night

more dark with grime and smudge becomes

as spreads the ancient blight

of sin’s deluding reverie

and people bound.

–

It breaks like new, the hope-full old

that here and born tonight:

that flash of glow, the light to come

an ancient spark foretold

that lights a burning renaissance

and rescue found.  

–

It shatters in a thousand panes

the sphere of darkened death.

As life bursts forth in stunning rays

And breaks the captive chains

in single glorious living shine

the Second Adam praised and crowned.