Poetry reference- "and the rock cried out ..."
Doug Fullingim
read. I can't remeber the title or the collection I found it in. The
gist of the poem was that anyone who hid the protagonist would suffer.
I believe the protagonist was referred to as "sinner man" or some such.
Anyone with a better memory? For some reason the Catastrophies
anthology comes to mind.
Just rambling...
DONSEMMENS
I seem to remember this from a rock song, but can't place it.
Could it be Led Zepplin?
I know it's a biblical reference, but when I first saw it,
I immediately thought of a song from my past. Long past
unfortunately. :)
--
"The year is 2260, the place: Babylon 5"
Don Semmens
Richmond, VA
hu...@ibm.net
I don't find it in my King James Bible. Also, it's not listed in my Oxford
Book of Quotations, which has a lot of the cool quotations from the Book
of Revelations.
However, there is a black gospel quartet song from the 1920's called
"No Hiding Place" (Gladys Stacey & Louise Cirtain/APRS BMI) which has
the lines:
"There's no hiding place down here,
there's no hiding place down here.
I ran to the rocks and hide my face
the rock cried out 'No hiding place'
there's no hiding place down here."
Or at least that's how it's worded in the version on my Nashville Bluegrass
Band recording. The song is making reference to Chap. 6 of Revelations where:
"...the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and
the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every slave, and every
free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the
mountains,
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from
the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of
the Lamb.
For the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to
stand?"
The reason I really like the name of the B5 episode isn't becuase of the
bible passage, but because it makes me remember the gospel song mentioned
above, whose tone is positively gleeful at the propect of all them sinners
trying to hide their face and the rock crying out "No hiding place".
I think if I were a B5 character, I'd be getting myself right with the Great
Maker sometime in the next couple episodes...
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Brent Hutto
Hu...@IBM.Net
Jay Denebeim
>However, there is a black gospel quartet song from the 1920's called
>"No Hiding Place" (Gladys Stacey & Louise Cirtain/APRS BMI) which has
>the lines:
That's what jms said the quote came from. Good find.
Jay
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Jay Denebeim dene...@deepthot.cary.nc.us
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Fuck censorship! Oh *shit* there goes another 100, er $200,000
Bob Ingria
This title sounds like a line from a poem in a science fiction short I
read. I can't remeber the title or the collection I found it in.
Ray Bradury used the title ``And the rock cried out'' for one of his
short stories.
The
gist of the poem was that anyone who hid the protagonist would suffer.
I believe the protagonist was referred to as "sinner man" or some such.
Bradbury quotes the following, as I remember:
``I went to the rock to hide my face
And the rock cried out: `No hiding place!
There's no hiding place down here.' ''
The original source is an old spiritual.
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Bob Ingria
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Bob Pierce
>However, there is a black gospel quartet song from the 1920's called
>"No Hiding Place" (Gladys Stacey & Louise Cirtain/APRS BMI) which has
>the lines:
> "There's no hiding place down here,
> there's no hiding place down here.
> I ran to the rocks and hide my face
> the rock cried out 'No hiding place'
> there's no hiding place down here."
Thanks for posting these lyrics. JMS has said that the episode title
was taken from a gospel song.
-- Bob
