Where are the Eagles?

This is from Murray Wylie's oratorio "The Jerusalem Passion" which is an Australian work, composed in 1987.

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Where are the Eagles?

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Where are the eagles? Where are the eagles? Why don't they hear, why don't they see? And why don't they fly home?

Make your flight in the summer, make your flight before the winter, before iniquity makes love of many cold. Make it right with your brother before the night hour is over, before the lightning flash when the Son will then appear. Some will say ‘here’, some will say '‘there’, only a few will say 'prepare’ Now is the end, the time it is near, nations are failing now for fear.

There’s an Eagle, there's a Man, there's a Lion, there’s a Lamb, there’s a body gathered here, but where, Lord.....

Where are the eagles, where are the eagles? Why don’t they hear, why don’t they see? And why don’t they fly home?

No, He is not in the desert, No He will not come to the temple, but where the body is found - there will eagles fly! Those who are there, He will gather; those who are not, He will scatter, before the lightning flash when the Son will then appear.

There’s an Eagle, there’s a Man, there’s a Lion, there’s a Lamb, there’s a body gathered here but where, Lord? ... aaah... Why don’t they fly home? Why don’t they fly home?

Young men be swift, old men be strong, knowing the time is not too long. All men repent, all men believe, come with the eagles, come receive. Oo oo oo oo........

References may be found in Matt 24:12, 20, 23; 24:26, 27, 28; Lk 21:26; Rev 4:7; Rev 5:5,6.

This song is one of about ten that a vocal trio I particpate in sings in free concerts we present at a number of oldpeoples' institutions around Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. We present a fifty minute long programme of highlights from this work, comprising some of the simpler numbers and of their associated narrations accompanied by piano rather than a symphony orchestra!