Poems By William Bell Scott. Ballads, Studies from Nature, Sonnets, etc. Illustrated by Seventeen Etchings by the Author and L. Alma Tadema |
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FAITH.
‘Follow Me,’ Jesus said; and they uprose,
Peter and Andrew rose and followed Him,
Followed Him even to heaven through death most grim,
And through a long hard life without repose,
Save in the grand ideal of its close.
‘Take up your cross and come with Me,’ He said;
And the world listens yet through all her dead,
And still would answer had we faith like those.
Peter and Andrew rose and followed Him,
Followed Him even to heaven through death most grim,
And through a long hard life without repose,
Save in the grand ideal of its close.
‘Take up your cross and come with Me,’ He said;
And the world listens yet through all her dead,
And still would answer had we faith like those.
But who can light again such beacon-fire!
With gladsome haste and with rejoicing souls—
How would men gird themselves for the emprise?
Leaving their black boats by the dead lake's mire,
Leaving their slimy nets by the cold shoals,
Leaving their old oars, nor once turn their eyes.
With gladsome haste and with rejoicing souls—
How would men gird themselves for the emprise?
Leaving their black boats by the dead lake's mire,
Leaving their slimy nets by the cold shoals,
Leaving their old oars, nor once turn their eyes.
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