Behold the suffering unspeakable in death
And the abominations of the earth;
Its desolation turns,
And now there is no life in her …
Behold the pale horse …
With fire in its eyes, with murder its rides,
Behold the grave sword …
It slays in violent horror, it preys in war …
Behold the scales of famine tear the flesh of men,
And harvest all the bodies of the dead;
The lifeless continents
Are lined beneath the carcasses …
Behold the pale horse …
And death be not proud, and life be not found.
Behold the plague comes,
And the haunting epidemic — infectious — has begun …
Behold the horrifying evidence,
The sequence of prophetic events,
The escalation fate ascends,
The darkest hour lies ahead …
Behold a pale horse …
And hell follow thee; in darkness it feeds,
Behold, the unseen world
Of Hades arise … burning in time …
Behold, the fourth seal
Is broken; it is revealed …
Behind the face of God;
In the silence of heaven concealed;
The seventh seal …