Volume 4 — ON ST. PETER'S DENIAL.
Reading edition
"And the Lord, turning, looked on Peter."
Lord! wilt thou that I also should deny That I am thine? Behold, my longing soul cries upward to the sky For sight divine! All through the silent night in livelong day— O grievous lot!— I seek to know thee more, and yet am forced to say "I know thee not". With Peter let these bitter tears confess My treachery: Yet, Lord, to know thee as thou art I need no less A look from thee!
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