OF RED RIVER AGONY

            In this river,

            Only crocodiles can be:-

            Alligators, no!

            This is not only nasty,

            It is red reality:-

            The river’s bordering banks,

            Are as red steaming lava:-

            But let us not be dismayed,

            There is that other river;

            The rain-bowed river of God—

            Banked by the soil of oneness:

            Let us cross over:-