Alpha and Omega

This poem was originally published in the May 1962 issue of the Beacon Lights.   In the beginning, the eternal Word, By might unmeasured and unknown to man, Spoke, and the depths of nothingness were stirred; And in that great beginning time began. And in time’s fullness, man by sin fast held, That Word was flesh, time met eternity; The finite and the Infinite were weld, And God and man was hanged upon a tree. But in time’s glass will drop the final sand, The cloud-clothed angel with a lion’s...