| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | The Missing Nine | | George Thomas Coster (1835–1912) |
| | | I HEALED them all; by Me they live | |
| A life redeemed of wholesome days; | |
| And of the ten comes back to give | |
| But one to Me a heart of praise? | |
| Where are the Nine? | 5 |
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| The creeping death in every limb | |
| Dire-crumbling all the frame, I stayed | |
| As much in all the ten as him | |
| Who loudlier praises than he prayed. | |
| Where are the Nine? | 10 |
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| All, all the lepers would I save, | |
| (To seek and save the lost I came), | |
| From grave beyond the leper’s grave, | |
| From shame that is eternal shame. | |
| Where are the Nine? | 15 |
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| “Arise and go thy way!” made whole, | |
| For ever of foul scale and scar, | |
| And saved to endless life thy soul! | |
| One saved! oh, Nine that wander far! | |
| Where are the Nine? | 20 | | | |
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