Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
Imagine There’s No “Imagine”
“Christendom has had a series of revolutions, and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.”
-G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
Imagine a world without anthems that whine
It’s difficult if we try; the ‘seventies cry
Rockabilly tunes in the communion line
And fling fluorescents from a dropped-ceiling sky
The ‘seventies tell the Bible what to say
And dangling speakers program us with a primitive beat
Manifestos proclaim the ideology of the day
The Gospel is reduced to an electronic tweet
But, peace!
The tie-dyed ‘seventies still croak and wail
But it is the Eternal that will prevail
