Jonah
Where might be found the presence of divine
There found is calling burdensome to me.
What he would have beyond the pow’r of mine
Has driven far upon the pagan sea
This heart from love and tender conscious faith
Unto that fiery sermon of the deep,
Unto the very throat which right portrayeth
Mine own engorging habits where I sleep
Unknowing quite the storms which rage without
On me and on those of like fearsome plight
Unknowing or unwanting but to doubt
The worth of other man in heaven’s sight.
Now fall from God of earth and sea and land
On all who sin what mercy’s willed ‘forehand.