Does the Land Remember?

Do Galilee’s fields and pastures,

That knew the saviour man and boy,

Recall a family’s laughter,

The sound of childhood games, with joy?

Do Sidon’s oaks have memory?

Do any live that gave him shade?

Do old trees whisper to the young

Of God’s son walking through their glades?

Does Gethsemane remember

Being watered by the Saviour’s tears?

Does she call to mind a traitor,

A desperate prayer, a wounded ear?

Does Golgotha’s soil still lament

The eternal shame and glory

Of hosting Our Lord’s great torment

To fulfil redemption’s story?

Does the Holy Land remember,

After millennia of strife,

Despite all the war and murder,

That she was the spring of life?