| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Hymns of the Eastern Church (1862).
I. “Fierce was the wild billow” | | By John Mason Neale (1818–1866) |
| | (From “S. Anatolius”)
FIERCE was the wild billow; | |
| Dark was the night; | |
| Oars labour’d heavily; | |
| Foam glimmer’d white; | |
| Trembled the mariners; | 5 |
| Peril was nigh; | |
| Then said the God of God, | |
| —“Peace! It is I!” | |
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| Ridge of the mountain-wave, | |
| Lower thy crest! | 10 |
| Wail of Euroclydon, | |
| Be thou at rest! | |
| Sorrow can never be,— | |
| Darkness must fly,— | |
| Where saith the Light of Light, | 15 |
| —“Peace! It is I!” | |
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| Jesu, Deliverer! | |
| Come Thou to me: | |
| Soothe Thou my voyaging | |
| Over Life’s sea! | 20 |
| Thou, when the storm of Death | |
| Roars, sweeping by, | |
| Whisper, O Truth of Truth! | |
| —“Peace! It is I!” | | | | |
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