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1103.

[The cock had crow'd in vain]

And when he thought thereon, he wept. —xiv. 72.

The cock had crow'd in vain,
If Jesus had not stirr'd,
And brought to Peter's mind again
The warning of his Lord:
But Jesus cast the look
Which into contrite woe
Dissolved at once the smitten rock,
And made the waters flow.
Retreat the mourner seeks,
(When Christ the grace supplies,)
Not with his tongue but heart he speaks
Through his o'erflowing eyes:
His tongue he sadly knew
The organ of his sin,
And show'd us that repentance true
With silence must begin.