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For now I say to thee this day
The TRIAL The Trial is a central theme in Southcott's work, representing both a legal examination of her claims and a cosmic judgment of Satan. so must come.
My SHEEP have been turned every way
By Satan's artful hand;
But still before, I tell thee here,
My SHEEP did surely go;
And now I will let the JUDGE appear,
And prove the world is so.
When I was cast the Judges burst
My Murderer then to free;
And my FIRST JURY Refers to the people who judged Jesus at his crucifixion, choosing to release Barabbas instead. then was cast,
That boldly stood for ME.
But now again, the second time,
My JURY The "Second Jury" refers to Southcott's supporters who gathered in 1804 to examine her writings and validate her mission. do appear
My every KINGDOM for to claim,
And cast the Murderer here.
But now the same the Judges came—
That is, the world I mean;
They will try to free the infamy,
The JURIES to condemn;
But I will appear to make it clear
That of the SHEEP he is free.
All ways he hath tried to turn them here,
But this could never be,
Because before my SPIRIT there
Stood strongly in the men,
That he his guilt can no way clear;
For now the time is come,
That I am here and do appear
Now in the Woman's Form A reference to the "Woman clothed with the sun" from Revelation 12, whom Southcott believed she represented.;
For there at first the Thief did burst—
And now I have burst the same,
I tell thee, in the FLOCK OF SHEEP,
Where first the murder came.—
But unto thee the thing, I see,
In agonies thou hast placed,
Because thy heart reproached thee,
And I that way did burst
To say thy heart had felt the dart
Of Satan's artful hand;
Because that thee, through jealousy
The TRIAL could not stand.
Always to bear, he did ensnare,
I know, thy heart with grief,
Until my SHEEP they did appear
For to give thee relief;
Because alone thou madest thy moan,
Before my SHEEP did come,
And all together did agree
To bring thy TRIAL on.
For I will reveal and not conceal,
It is bringing round this way,
As though my SHEEP he here did steal;