| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | Jesus Praying | | Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) |
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HE sought the mountain and the loneliest height, | |
| For He would meet his Father all alone, | |
| And there, with many a tear and many a groan, | |
| He strove in prayer throughout the long long night. | |
| Why need He pray, who held by filial right, | 5 |
| O’er all the world alike of thought and sense, | |
| The fulness of his Sire’s omnipotence? | |
| Why crave in prayer what was his own by might? | |
| Vain is the question,—Christ was man in need, | |
| And being man his duty was to pray. | 10 |
| The son of God confess’d the human need, | |
| And doubtless ask’d a blessing every day. | |
| Nor ceases yet for sinful man to plead, | |
| Nor will, till heaven and earth shall pass away. | | | | |
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