| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | John the Baptist | | Frederick W. H. Myers (1843–1901) |
| | | ALSO of John a calling and a crying | |
| Rang in Bethabara till strength was spent, | |
| Cared not for counsel, stayed not for replying, | |
| John had one message for the world—Repent. | |
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| John, than which man a sadder or a greater | 5 |
| Not till this day has been of woman born; | |
| John, like some iron peak by the Creator | |
| Fired with the red glow of the rushing morn. | |
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| Thus, when the sun shall rise and overcome it; | |
| Stands in his shining desolate and bare, | 10 |
| Yet not the less the inexorable summit | |
| Flamed him his signal to the upper air. | | | | |
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