The Spangle Maker - Circumambulation (A Way Forward) lyrics

Man has circled the globe And the wealth of the earth is his With benevolent rule His has risen to great acclaim He has named all the stars The descendents of Abraham And the waters and the winds And the humours and the bones And the follies and the sins All that man has made his own He has built a lofty tower From the rubble of the stones He has mastered every tongue And forever will be known Man has planted and grown An abundance of all good things To the glory of God Has commissioned each masterpiece An unceasing advance What improvements to his mind Both in science and in art Wisdom's sight unto the blind All the wonders man has wrought! Man will one day reduce All the myst'ries of alchemy And of temporal pain He will eat from the Tree of Life It is ripe with good fruit With a circlet of gold And a castle of ivory And a scepter of iron He will uphold the prophet's hands And the lands will be won as the writings foretold Neither dying nor life Angels or principalities Powers now or to come Soaring heights or the darkest depths Nor the fearsomest beasts Shall be able to separate Man from the love of his God Which is in Jesus Christ our Lord If God is for us Then no one can be against And in all of these things We are better than conquerors Virum mihi, Camena Insece versutum Man has fashioned machines To increase for posterity The enjoyment of life Feed the hungry, cure the ill Shelter beggars on the street Care for mothers and for children The great become the least Man's ambition is vast And his resources infinite There is nothing to fear He will do what he thinks is right Be enlightened at last I have made good my claim Both to valor and industry Thus I challenge my share Of wisdom—we are but men And the end clips our wings When we pitch where we aim The thing that hath been It is that which shall be And that which is done Is that which shall be done And there is no new thing under the sun There is no new thing under the sun