The Seven Trumpets: 5-6

The Seven Trumpets: Revelation 9:1-10:3 Part Two: The fifth and sixth trumpets

Next blows the trumpet to open the dungeon From its bottomless depths it calls forth The consumers of people, Apollyon's legion: Locusts stinging with living death. Now comes the Sixth, his trumpet to blow To release the bound chaos at earth’s corners: A mounted army, whose numbers only grow As they sweep death across every border. And still the world's kingdom though ruined and torn With each plague, (the) people pleasure in perishing, Not heading the pain which wakens to warn-- To slumber in sin -- to remain idol cherishing. But the Angel stands over, crowned with rained glory Sheltering the sojourners, calling out as a lion roaring

artwork: La lumiere as lais; Apocalypse (the 'Welles Apocalypse')