| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | “Peace! It Is I” | | Anonymous |
| | (Falsely ascribed to Anatolius, Patriarch of Constantinople)
Translated by John Mason Neale |
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FIERCE was the wild billow; | |
| Dark was the night; | |
| Oars labour’d heavily; | |
| Foam glimmer’d white; | |
| Trembled the mariners; | 5 |
| Peril was nigh; | |
| Then said the God of God, | |
| —“Peace! It is I!” | |
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| Ridge of the mountain-wave, | |
| Lower thy crest! | 10 |
| Wail of Euroclydon, | |
| Be thou at rest! | |
| Sorrow can never be,— | |
| Darkness must fly,— | |
| Where saith the Light of Light, | 15 |
| —“Peace! It is I!” | |
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| Jesu, Deliverer! | |
| Come Thou to me: | |
| Soothe Thou my voyaging | |
| Over Life’s sea! | 20 |
| Thou, when the storm of Death | |
| Roars sweeping by, | |
| Whisper, O Truth of Truth! | |
| —“Peace! It is I!” | | | |
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