| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | To the Sea of Galilee | | Benjamin Waugh (1839–1908) |
| | | O PEARL of seas! how fairly set, thou lovely Galilee! | |
| Well may all waters of the world for beauty envy thee. | |
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| For more than beauty! On thy shores heaven’s purest feet have trod; | |
| And in thy face, as now yon sun, was mirrored once my God. | |
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| He loved to walk with thee beside; He gazed into thy face; | 5 |
| Thy troubled moods He calmed for thee; thou seem’st His child of grace. | |
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| But yet why envy thee, fair sea, by Jesus favoured thus? | |
| Far more than He hath favoured thee hath Jesus favoured us. | |
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| Not for thy waters Jesus came His precious work to do; | |
| ’Twas not to give thy troubles peace that Him from glory drew. | 10 |
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| Thine was a brief, a passing joy, as transient as thy flowers; | |
| Thy side He left, and went away—He never leaveth ours. | |
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| Yet, sea of seas, I envy thee, thou small, but greatest deep | |
| For on thy bosom Jesus found the place where He might sleep. | |
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| His weary frame, His heavy heart were pillowed on thy breast. | 15 |
| As John on Him, so He on thee found place where He might rest. | |
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| Jesus, if thou, by work or wrong, should’st sad or weary be, | |
| Come seek within my heart the place once found on Galilee. | | | | |
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