The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come,"THE voice of the turtle is heard in the land. The green book of the earth is open,

and the four winds are turning the leaves, while Nature, chief secretary to the

creative Word, sits busy at her inditing of many a lovely poem -

What book shall we open side by side with Nature's? First, the book of God.

The Book of the Poets may well come next - even this book, if indeed it deserve

the nobility of its name."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Book of The Poets, June-August, 1842.

Christianity and the old nature faith have lain down side by side in the cottages,

and I would proclaim that peace as loudly as I can among the kingdoms of poetry,

where there is no peace that is not joyous, no battle that does not give life instead

of death; I may even try to persuade others, in more sober prose, that there can

be no language more worthy of poetry and of the meditation of the soul than that

which has been made, or can be made, out of a subtlety of desire, an emotion of

sacrifice, a delight in order, that are perhaps Christian, and myths and images that

mirror the energies of woods and streams, and of their wild creatures. Has any

part of that majestic heraldry of the poets had a very different fountain? Is it not

the ritual of the marriage of heaven and earth?

W. B. Yeats, POEMS, Preface to the Third Edition, January, 1901.

Reading the Bible should be an exhilarating and mystical experience; enough to

make you laugh, and cry, and shout for joy! There are secrets in the Bible, which

can only be revealed through the lens of poetry; when the Prophets and the Poets

sing together, with the constants of the Universe keeping perfect time. We should

listen to the Logos!

If you thought you knew the Bible, be astonished at yourself!