Episode 40 - The Dream of the Rood

Story: "The Dream of the Rood"
Music: Kerry Kelso
Genre: Classic, Supernatural
Rating: G

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A dreamer speaks with the Cross upon which Jesus was crucified. 

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Lo! I will tell of the best of dreams,
what I dreamed in the middle of the night,
after the speech-bearers were in bed.
It seemed to me that I saw a very wondrous tree
lifted into the air, enveloped by light,
the brightest of trees. That beacon was all
covered with gold. Gems stood
beautiful at the surface of the earth, there were five also
up on the central joint of the cross. All those fair through eternal decree gazed
[on] the angel of the Lord. [It] was certainly not a wicked person’s gallows there,
but holy spirits, men over the earth,
and all this famous creation gazed on him.
Wondrous was that tree of victory, and I stained with sins
wounded sorely with defects, I saw the tree of glory,
honoured with garments, shining joyously,
adorned with gold. Gems had
splendidly covered the Lord’s tree.
I was able, however, to perceive through the gold,
the ancient hostility of wretched ones, [that] it first began
to bleed on the right side.

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"The Dream of the Rood"
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Music for "The Dream of the Rood" by Kerry Kelso

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Cover Attribution:  Adapted from “Stone Cross” by Bob Smith - http://www.freeimages.com/photographer/brainloc-32259, and Christ Crowned with Thorns by Matthias Stom