| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | ‘O Thou of Little Faith’ | | Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
| | | IT may be true | |
| That while we walk the troublous tossing sea, | |
| That when we see the o’ertopping waves advance, | |
| And when we feel our feet beneath us sink, | |
| There are who walk beside us; and the cry | 5 |
| That rises so spontaneous to the lips, | |
| The ‘Help us, or we perish,’ is not nought, | |
| An evanescent spectrum of disease. | |
| It may be that indeed and not in fancy, | |
| A hand that is not ours upstays our steps, | 10 |
| A voice that is not ours commands the waves; | |
| Commands the waves, and whispers in our ear, | |
| ‘O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt?’ | |
| At any rate | |
| That there are beings above us, I believe, | 15 |
| And when we lift up holy hands of prayer, | |
| I will not say they will not give us aid. | | | | |
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