Keith D Trestrail Poet Narrative

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Noah

Man begat man and giants walked,
 among mighty men a righteous dearth.
  And to each took them wives
 that they bear and multiply the earth

  Their wickedness vexed The Lord,
“I will destroy man and fowl on the wing,
  and a full end” it grieved Him so,
“of all beast and creeping thing”

  The world was filled by violence
 but Noah walked with God and was just,
  and begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth,
 and they all did in The Lord trust

 “Go make an ark of gopher wood,
 upon the earth I bring a flood of waters.
  And with Noah make a covenant
 in his seed, his sons and daughters”

 “That behold wherein under heaven 
 everything with breath of life shall die.
  Of two of every sort bring beast,
 creeping thing and fowl of the sky”

  For forty days and forty nights
 upon the earth God caused it to rain.
  And the waters greatly increased
 till the fountains began to wane

  When the earth was again dry
 The Lord God spoke unto Noah saying
 “go forth of the ark - bring forth
 every living thing there laying”

  Of three sons was the earth spread,
 and Noah planted a vineyard to behold,
  but of the wine had much to drink
 and this Ham to his brothers told

  When Noah awoke from his wine
 he was in a wrath what Ham had done,
  and said “a servant of servants shall
 you to your brothers be my son”

  So blessed he Shem, and Japheth,
 that Ham dwell in the tents of Shem.
  And all the days of Noah were
 nine hundred and fifty years to them


       Written: September 2010

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