| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | The Gift of Tongues | | John Henry Newman (1801–1890) |
| | | ONCE cast with men of language strange | |
| And foreign-moulded creed, | |
| I marked their random converse change, | |
| And sacred themes succeed. | |
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| O how I coveted the gift | 5 |
| To thread their mingled throng | |
| Of sounds, then high my witness lift! | |
| But weakness chain’d my tongue. | |
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| Lord! has our dearth of faith and prayer | |
| Lost us this power once given; | 10 |
| Or is it sent at seasons rare | |
| And then flits back to heaven? | | | | |
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