"Paradise" the gardeners say
"Has been located in the Southern Sea
The farthest East, beyond Cathay."
(where?) "and Mesopotamia" (not today)
"And near Jerusalem", yes but it could be
Located in Brooklyn you know or Birchfield
Birmingham, there grew a tree
There too, the ways doubtful and concealed
No paradise revealed, the tree and God's estate
Shut off lately and the very gate
Not visible, the roads anywhere a mental menace
The judgement terrible and the race
Forgeone, paradise scrubbed from the chart
Paradise abruptly tossed
Out of Eden mobbed and lost
But the Garden Book starts
As a story of the many placed place
"Seek and you will find" it states,
And so Pilgrim must
Hold hope in every wayside clue
Find faith he can win to
Love, to old love and to new,
For thee my tree,
For goodness sake for you,
Equipped with pilgrim trust:
Paradise or Bust.
"Has been located in the Southern Sea
The farthest East, beyond Cathay."
(where?) "and Mesopotamia" (not today)
"And near Jerusalem", yes but it could be
Located in Brooklyn you know or Birchfield
Birmingham, there grew a tree
There too, the ways doubtful and concealed
No paradise revealed, the tree and God's estate
Shut off lately and the very gate
Not visible, the roads anywhere a mental menace
The judgement terrible and the race
Forgeone, paradise scrubbed from the chart
Paradise abruptly tossed
Out of Eden mobbed and lost
But the Garden Book starts
As a story of the many placed place
"Seek and you will find" it states,
And so Pilgrim must
Hold hope in every wayside clue
Find faith he can win to
Love, to old love and to new,
For thee my tree,
For goodness sake for you,
Equipped with pilgrim trust:
Paradise or Bust.