by Pavel Chichikov
Stag of many earthly forests
Stag of omen, crucifixion
Beast that bears the Lord’s anointed
And the temple’s candelabrum
It is Friday in the world
Christ has suffered and is buried
Now across the tomb and valley
Shadows and their heads are severed
Sun is sunken like an eye
In the skull they call a hill,
All the angels multiply
Overhead, for God is killed
Then the beasts of apparition
Since the sons of men have fled
Come lamenting in affliction –
Jesus Son of God is dead
Then they gather round His chamber
Every being tame and wild –
Wounds of wounded creatures bleeding
For the death of Mary’s Child
And the stag between its antlers
Bears aloft a bleeding cross:
This is Friday and creation
Comes to sorrow for your loss
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