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The Raven After the rain came months of fog man and beast were sick as dogs Borne on the flood seeking haven before he sent the dove Noah sent the raven He slid the plank from the ark window yellow eye grew very narrow And Noah cried, "Great God above to this most loathed of your creatures show your love" Tiger paced grey wolf howled viper hissed monkey scowled Grizzly grumbled mammoth blew the doves all fluttered raven - flew! He set the bird set it in the sky a croaking mote in God's blue eye And the raven's black irridescent wing made an ebony rainbow shimmering, shimmering And the water glowed with a greenish light the scavenger Hunted all night And the raven stayed true to his red creed and brought back entrails for his master to read: "You will drive your plow Through shallow graves And plant your vines In the mouths of babes And pitch your tents On heaps of bones, And tune your harp Where the wild wind moans." After the rain seeking haven In the Beginning went the Raven.... ) 1997 Hugh Blumenfeld/Hydrogen Jukebox Music
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"Before he sent the dove, Noah sent the Raven" The first creature to venture into the post-holocaust world of The Flood was the carrion eater; remembering this evokes images not usually associated with the story of Noah we learn as children. The song was commissioned by St. Louis Hillel in November 1997. From the CD "Big Red" (Brambus, 2000).
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