O Lord of law--o Lord of locusts--
God of baptist-prophet's focus,
Lord who seized the vipers' tail--
the unclean cleaner's Kingdom, hail!
Praise the Incarnate, at whose immersion
truth--law and locusts--was wholly subverted:
the sinners now saints, the saints are revealed
as sinners with hearts as hardened as steel.
So prepare ye, then, the way of the Lord:
white horse and rider with double-edged sword--
one side a blade, and the other a plowshare--
raising the wheat and razing the tares.
