| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | St. Andrew | | George Thomas Coster (1835–1912) |
| | | QUICK eye had Andrew. He it was amid | |
| The thronging multitudes that marked the lad | |
| And what his basket, and how much it had,— | |
| ‘Two fishes small and loaves of barley five.’ | |
| Rewarded eye, to trivial things alive,— | 5 |
| In that poor basket what rich mercy hid! | |
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| A brother’s heart had Andrew. Joy beyond | |
| All joy to him, the promised Christ to find: | |
| But heavenly joy may not to duty blind; | |
| He cannot rest, his bliss is incomplete | 10 |
| Till Simon sits with him at Jesus’ feet,— | |
| His brother then by more than natural bond. | |
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| Oh happy they with Andrew’s eye, to heed | |
| A lad and his scant business in the throng, | |
| Nor by high scorn to do his efforts wrong. | 15 |
| And happy they with heart that will not rest | |
| Till in their bliss their brother too is blest; | |
| What joy a Peter to the Lord to lead! | | | | |
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