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O FAITHLESS found when all believed, | |
| Where wast thou Thomas, then; | |
| Not with the rout that raged without, | |
| Not with the faithful Ten? | |
| Why not with friends sure counsel take, | 5 |
| Who sought the House of Prayer; | |
| O why, the first Lord’s-day forsake | |
| The first assembling there? | |
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| Not hear the word, when first the Lord | |
| His preacher’s flag unfurl’d | 10 |
| And lit their torches at the flame | |
| Which overshone the world! | |
| Not there, when each became—to preach | |
| The Cross from pole to pole,— | |
| Breath’d on with breath which conquer’d death, | 15 |
| An ever living soul! | |
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| Thou could’st the Jewish stones defy | |
| For Him at danger’s call: | |
| O better far with Christ to die, | |
| When Christ has died for all! | 20 |
| It was not fear, for all were near | |
| Who closed the doors for fright, | |
| Hid in that room, when e’en the tomb | |
| Was full of living light. | |
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| Or had’st thou stray’d to see display’d | 25 |
| The Paschal barley-ears, | |
| Heaved bright and high across the sky, | |
| When harvest-time appears? | |
| More blest were they that week’s first day, | |
| With Him the feast was kept, | 30 |
| Who came to wave, fresh from the grave, | |
| First fruits of them that slept. | |
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