The World Might Well Be Remedied

Music: Erbarm mich dich, O Herre Gott
By Heinrich Bach. Sequenced by David Cooke.

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The world might well be remedied, The revolution won, Eyes turned back towards paradise And memories to stone. Power might indeed devolve To those who now have none, Saints upon the barricades Whose time has come and gone. For in the act of overthrow There sits a golden throne, Empty till the tide returns To those who rule alone.