| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | The Ordaining of the Twelve Apostles | | Arthur Middlemore Morgan |
| | ‘He ordained twelve that they might be with Him.’—M ARK III. 14. |
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HE might have stay’d above the starry skies, | |
| He might have broke, without the war, our chain, | |
| He might have washed, without the blood, our stain, | |
| And brought us, angel-pure, to Paradise; | |
| But since the Love would be self-sacrifice, | 5 |
| Will not a thousand be by One o’erthrown? | |
| No clarion-summons from his camp need rise, | |
| God in our manhood can make war alone. | |
| Hark! on all winds the sounds of many voices; | |
| Deep answers deep, “We come,” the “Follow Me;” | 10 |
| Vanguard the twelve, a mighty host rejoices, | |
| Arrayed in Love’s own victor-panoply; | |
| “From wealth, from trade, from sire, from all,” they cry, | |
| “To fish for men, to farm the wealth on high.” | | | |
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