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First Line: Launch out into the deep, christ spake of old
Last Line: Unique, near thee, to love thee human-eyed?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.)


'LAUNCH out into the deep,' Christ spake of old
To Peter: and he launched into the deep;
Strengthened should tempest wake which lay asleep,
Strengthened to suffer heat or suffer cold.
Thus, in Christ's Prescience: patient to behold
A fall, a rise, a scaling Heaven's high steep;
Prescience of Love, which deigned to overleap
The mire of human errors manifold.
Lord, Lover of Thy Peter, and of him
Beloved with craving of a humbled heart
Which eighteen hundred years have satisfied;
Hath he his throne among Thy Seraphim
Who love? or sits he on a throne apart,
Unique, near Thee, to love Thee human-eyed?





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