Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VISION, by EDWARD DOWDEN


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First Line: We by no shining galilean lake
Last Line: Following the christ within a young man's face?
Subject(s): Jesus Christ


We by no shining Galilean lake
Have toiled, but long and little fruitfully
In waves of a more old and bitter sea
Our nets we cast; large winds, that sleep and wake
Around the feet of dawn and sunset, make
Our spiritual inhuman company,
And formless shadows of water rise and flee
All night around us till the morning break.

Thus our lives wear—shall it be ever thus?
Some idle day, when least we look for grace,
Shall we see stand upon the shore indeed
The visible Master, and the Lord of us,
And leave our nets, nor question of his creed,
Following the Christ within a young man's face?





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