Edward Cracroft Lefroy: His Life and Poems including a Reprint of Echoes from Theocritus: By Wilfred Austin Gill: With a Critical Estimate of the Sonnets by the late John Addington Symonds |
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LXV
WINDOWS OF THE CHURCH
IV. ST. JOHN
Behold the face that Jesus loved of yore,The face of John. Long time with Zebedee
He dragged his rough nets through the darkling sea;
Till Jesus marked the power unmarked before,
And called him from his black boat on the shore
To fish for men. With zeal and lovingly
He did that fisher-work, while hands were free;
Then lived God's prisoner, and was blest yet more;
Who on a day in Patmos knew the whirl
Of spirit-wings around him, (it is writ
To them that held him as Evangelist,)
And saw God's City, and the walls of it—
All gems, from jasper up to amethyst,
With streets gold-glass, and every gate a pearl.
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